BIL 330 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Fish, Oxygen, Natural Selection
20 Nov 2018
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Interactions among different species: ecosystem, biotic and abiotic components, flow of energy and matter, biosphere, global processes. Anole lizards only one type is here naturally, 8 or 9 others: ex. Burmese pythons brought here not here naturally here: natural movement by things such as migration or climate events like. Ecotope: dimensions in time and space, nothing is static and properties change, variations in time and space, scale is a dimension in which changes in time and space are measured, usually defined by cycles ex. Frogs sing on warm nights after periods of rain because that is when females search for mates: how addresses proximate factors, why addresses ultimate factors, hypotheses generate predictions, prediction, ex. Incorporates both species richness and evenness: higher number indicates more diversity, scales of diversity, alpha diversity, local diversity within a uniform habitat, average number of species within habitats, ex.
