Population and Community Ecology

Recall cards on population and community ecology: population demography (size, density, dispersion patterns, quadrat and mark-recapture sampling, life tables, and Type I, II, and III survivorship curves); life histories and natural selection (energy budgets, fecundity, semelparity versus iteroparity, and the cost of reproduction); environmental limits to growth (exponential J-curves, the per capita rate of increase, carrying capacity, and logistic growth); population dynamics (density-dependent versus density-independent regulation and K- versus r-selection); human population growth and age structure; community ecology (predation and the lynx-hare cycle, defenses and mimicry, competitive exclusion, symbiosis, foundation and keystone species, invasive species, and succession); and behavioral biology (innate versus learned behavior, kinesis and taxis, fixed action patterns, migration, foraging, communication, mating systems and sexual selection, conditioning, and kin selection and altruism).