Wildlife Test Review Population Dynamics

  1. What did people think caused population fluctuations?
    supernaturals forces
  2. What is providential ecology?
    nature constant and harmonious
  3. Who were the pioneers of population dynamics?
    • Plato- people regarding his ramblings about providential ecology as facts
    • Aristotle- Plato's student, thought the boom and bust of locust populations related to the environment
  4. What was important about Pliny?
    • wrote a 31-volume work known as Natural History
    • initiated the conception of the unity of nature and the interdependence of the sciences
  5. Is measuring how well populations grow easy?
    no it is complex because of the numerous interactions between individuals and the environment
  6. What is emigration?
    dispersal out of the population
  7. What is immigration?
    one-way movement onto another area or population
  8. What is a group of organisms of the same species that occupies a given area over a specific time period?
  9. What are the basic population parameters?
    • birth rate
    • death rate
    • sex rate
    • age structure
    • survival by age class
    • fecundity by age
    • frequency of distribution of ages
    • sex ration and numbers/density
  10. What is natality?
    • birth rate
    • number of individuals produced per unit of time
    • expressed as # of individuals produced per 100 females
  11. What can cause mortality?
    • competition
    • starvation
    • disease, parasites
    • predators
    • weather
    • hunters
    • old age
  12. What is specific natality?
    number of individuals produced per unit of time per breeding female
  13. What variables influence natality?
    • size of litter/clutch
    • length of breeding season
    • young produced per year
    • breeding age
    • sex rations and mating habits
    • density and breeding
  14. What is the potential number of animals that could be born?
  15. What is the actual number of animals born?
    fecundity (not a ratio)
  16. What is mortality?
    leaving the population by way of death
Card Set
Wildlife Test Review Population Dynamics
WLDM test 1 section 4