Chapter 53

Disturbance

event (storm, fire) changes community removes organisms and alters resource availability
Primary Producer
Primary Consumer
Secondary Consumers
Tertiary Consumers
Quaternary Consumers
Predation

+/- One Species kills another
Ecological Succession

species gradually replaced by other species, then replaced by new ones
Cryptic Coloration

Camoflauge
Commensalism

+/0 benefits one no harm or benefit to another
Aposematic Coloration

Chemical Defenses often with bright coloring
Ecological Niche

Sum total of biotic and abiotic resources of envirnment
Mutalism

+/+ benefits both species
Batesian Mimicry

harmless species mimics a harmful species
Müllerian Mimicry

2 harmful species look like eachother (bees)
Primary Succession

virtually lifeless area
Secondary Succession

starts to look like what it was before the disaster
Competitive Exclusion

Slight reproductive advantage will eventually lead to eliminatino of the less well adapted species

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Chapter 53 Ecology A.P. Biology

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