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Bright blue marble spinning in space
Ecology
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Studying organisms in their environment
organism
population
community
ecosystem
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biosphere
Interacting with the environment
 Biotic environment
prey (food)
 competitors
 predators, parasites, disease

 Abiotic environment
sunlight
 temperature
 water
 soil

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organism
population
community
ecosystem
biosphere
Population Ecology
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Life takes place in populations
 Population

group of individuals of same species in
same area at same time
 rely on same
resources
 interact
 interbreed
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Population
Characterizing a Population
 Describing a population
population range
 pattern of spacing

 density

size of population
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1966
1964
1960
1965
1961
Equator
1958
1951
1943
1937
1956
1970
Immigration
from Africa
~1900
range
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density
Population Range
 Geographical limitations

biotic & abiotic factors
 food, predators, temperature, rainfall, etc.

habitat
adapted to polar region
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adapted to rainforest
Changes in range
 Range expansions & contractions

changing environment
aspen
oak, maple
15,000 years ago
glacial period
Alpine tundra
Elevation (km)
3 km
Spruce-fir forests
white birch
Alpine tundra
sequoia
Present
Spruce-fir forests
Mixed conifer forest
Woodlands
2 km
Mixed conifer forest
1 km
Woodlands
Grassland,
chaparral, and
desert scrub
Grassland, chaparral,
0 km
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Biology and desert scrub
result of competition
At risk populations
 Endangered species

limitations to range / habitat
 places species at risk
Devil’s hole
pupfish
Iiwi
Hawaiian
bird
Socorro
isopod
Iriomote cat
New Guinea
tree
kangaroo
Catalina
Island
mahogany
tree
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Northern white rhinoceros
Population Spacing
 Dispersal patterns within a population
Provides insight into the
environmental associations
& social interactions of
individuals in population
clumped
random
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uniform
Clumped Pattern
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(most common)
Uniform
May result from
direct
interactions
Clumped
patterns
between individuals
in the population
 territoriality
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Measuring population density
 How do we measure how many
individuals in a population?
number of individuals in an area
 mark & recapture methods

Difficult to count a moving target
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sampling populations
Population Size
 Changes to
population size

adding & removing
individuals from a
population
 birth
 death
 immigration
 emigration
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Population growth rates
 Factors affecting population growth rate

sex ratio
 how many females vs. males?

generation time
 at what age do females reproduce?

age structure
 how females at reproductive age in cohort?
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Why do teenage boys pay high car insurance rates?
Demography
 Factors that affect growth & decline of
populations

vital statistics & how they change over
time
females
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males
Life table
What does
this tell you
about the
population?
Survivorship curves
 Graphic representation of life table
The relatively straight lines of the plots indicate relatively constant
rates of death; however, males have a lower survival rate overall
than females.
Belding ground squirrel
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Age structure
 Relative number of individuals of each age
What do the data imply about population growth in
these countries?
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Survivorship curves
 Generalized strategies
Survival per thousand
1000
Human
(type I)
Hydra
(type II)
What do these graphs
tell about survival &
strategy of a species?
I. High death rate in
post-reproductive
years
100
II. Constant mortality
rate throughout life
span
Oyster
(type III)
10
1
0
25
50
75
Percent of maximum life span
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100
III. Very high early
mortality but the
few survivors then
live long (stay
reproductive)
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