BIOL 1511 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Hadley Cell, Life Table, Keystone Species
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& s: ecological communities are classified according to temperature and precipitation profiles, biomes: terrestrial, aquatic, or marine, biomes typically arranged based on latitude, interruptions to this pattern occur when major geologic features run counter to latitude. Andes in s. america runs from top to bottom of the continent, disrupting the east-to-west patterns evident in. Protect their offspring increasing reproduction improving fitness: sexual selection natural selection based upon preferred favorable characteristics of another sex by one sex. Interspecific interactions are not static but can evolve: community composition can be quantified for species richness and evenness, species richness (s) a count of the number of species in a community. Can be confirmed with reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, etc: assumed that (1) more isolated islands have lower immigration rates, (2) larger islands have lower. 9: secondary producers all other organisms that gain energy from the organic matter they consume, etc.
