BIOL 3060 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intraguild Predation, Allometry, Omnivore

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 3060
• Professor: Merritt Turetsky

Document Summary

March 5: allometry and whole web patterns of energy ow. Collected set of species interactions, the consumptive (consumer-resource interactions) as well as the mutualistic and competitive interactions (interference) The consumptive interactions and ecological networks as the set of all interactions (i. e, including mutualism and interference competition) * how are food webs structured (i. e, is there patterns in the network structure, * how does that structure mediate coexistence, persistence of species (stability ) and interaction strengths, topology?) Omnivory: feeding on more than one trophic level (a type of generalist foraging where organisms feed across trophic levels) Intraguild predation: type of omnivore where feed on competitor. Comptitive guild: set of all organisms that compete. Functional guild: grouped by a given trait or function. Topology: the set of connections (binary in that there either is a connection or not between 2 species) Interaction strength: measure of the strength of that connection (the thickness of the arrow connecting them)