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Chapter 24: Community Ecology


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Chapter 24: Community Ecology

p. 480: community

p. 481: niche, habitat, competition, interference competition, exploitative competition, interspecific competition, intraspecific competition, fundamental niche, realized niche

p. 482: principle of competitive exclusion

p. 483: sympatric species, allopatric species, character displacement

p. 484: coevolution, symbiotic relationships, lichens, mycorrhizae, commensalism, mutualism, parasitism

p. 485: epiphytes

p. 486: "honeydew," stipules, Beltian bodies

p. 487: ectoparasites, parasitoids, endoparasites

p. 488: predator-prey interactions, morphological defenses, chemical defenses, secondary chemical compounds, primary compounds, mustard oils, cardiac glycosides

p. 489: warning coloration, aposematic coloration, cryptic coloration

p. 490: predation, population cycles

p. 492: Batesian mimicry

p. 493: Müllerian mimicry

p. 494: species richness, species diversity, Shannon diversity index (H)

p. 495: ecosystem productivity, spatial heterogeneity

p. 496: species diversity cline

p. 497: island biogeography, equilibrium model

p. 498: succession, secondary succession, primary succession, xerarch, hydrarch, oligotrophic, eutrophic, climax vegetation, climax community, tolerance, facilitation, inhibition

p. 500: keystone species

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