Key Terms Related to Population and Community Ecology
This text highlights key terms important for the study of population and community ecology.
Topics
- age structure
- birth rate
- carrying capacity
- climax community
- competitive exclusion principle
- death rate
- demography
- density-dependent regulation
- density-independent regulation
- environmental disturbance
- exponential growth
- foundation species
- host
- intraspecific competition
- island biogeography
- J-shaped growth curve
- K-selected species
- keystone species
- life table
- logistic growth
- mark and recapture
- mimicry
- mortality rate
- mutualism
- one-child policy
- parasite
- pioneer species
- population density
- population size
- primary succession
- quadrat
- r-selected species
- relative species abundance
- S-shaped growth curve
- secondary succession
- species
- distribution pattern
- species richness
- survivorship curve
- zero population growth