Community Ecology
This text discusses predation & herbivory, competitive exclusion principle, symbiosis, characteristics of communities, and community dynamics.
Topics
- age structure
- aggressive display
- aposematic coloration
- Batesian mimicry
- behavior
- behavioral biology
- biotic potential
- birth rate
- camouflage
- carrying capacity
- classical conditioning
- climax community
- cognitive learning
- commensalism
- competitive exclusion principle
- conditioned behavior
- courtship display
- death rate
- demographic-based population model
- demography
- density-dependent regulation
- density-independent regulation
- distraction display
- Emsleyan/Mertensian mimicry
- energy budget
- environmental disturbance
- ethology
- exponential growth
- fecundity
- fixed action pattern
- foraging
- foundation species
- habituation
- imprinting
- innate behavior
- intersexual selection
- interspecific competition
- intrasexual selection
- intraspecific competition
- island biogeography
- iteroparity
- J-shaped growth curve
- K-selected species
- keystone species
- kin selection
- kinesis
- learned behavior
- life history
- life table
- logistic growth
- mark and recapture
- migration
- monogamy
- mortality rate
- mutualism
- Mullerian mimicry
- one-child policy
- operant conditioning
- parasite
- pioneer species
- polyandry
- polygyny
- population density
- population growth rate
- population size
- primary succession
- quadrat
- r-selected species
- reflex action
- relative species abundance
- S-shaped growth curve
- secondary succession
- semelparity
- signal
- species dispersion pattern
- species richness
- survivorship curve
- symbiosis
- zero population growth
- biodiversity
- community ecology
- community structure
- community succession
- competitive exclusion
- defense mechanism
- herbivory
- parasitism
- predation
- symbiotic relationship