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p. 463: ecology

p. 464: populations, communities, ecosystem, biomes

p. 465: population size, population density, population dispersion, randomly spaced, uniformly spaced, clumped, metapopulations

p. 466: demography, cohort, fecundity, mortality, age structure, sex ratio, age distribution, stable population, survivorship curve

p. 467: life tables, mortality rate, static (cross-sectional) life table

p. 468: life history, total reproductive value (TRV), current reproductive value (CRV), residual reproductive value (RRV), cost of reproduction (CR)

p. 469: clutch size, Lack clutch size, semelparity, iteroparity

p. 470: biotic potential, intrinsic rate of natural increase (r_i), actual rate of population increase (r), emigration, immigration, exponential

p. 471: carrying capacity (K), logistic growth equation, sigmoid growth curve

p. 472: r selected adaptations, K selected adaptations

p. 473: density-independent effects, density-dependent effects, maximal sustainable yield

p. 475: population pyramid

p. 476: biosphere

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