GEO 4300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Spatial Analysis, Photic Zone, Robert Macarthur
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Biogeography study of spatial patterns of biological diversity. Where organisms live, at what abundance, how, why. Philosophy and principles of biogeo: detect patterns and develop theories to explain them, theories evolve over time (paradigm shifts, observational rather than experimental, actualism. Dominant theory--> major change --> crisis --> revolution --> settling. Uniformitarianism assumption that basic and physical biological processes operating today have operated throughout time. Actualism processes and forces operate same as they have in past just varying in rates and importance. Consilience when info from unrelated sources come together they provide greater scientific rigor. Species species all individuals that can sexually reproduce with each other and produce fertile offspring. All individuals of a species in a prescribed area that interact and interbreed metapopulation spatially separated of same species that interact through movement of individuals. Emmigration community populations of different species that live and interact in prescribed area ecosystem community and the abiotic enviornment.
