I. What is Community Ecology?
A. Be able to fully explain and apply the following concepts:
1. competition for resources: (a) resource (b) limiting
resource (c) habitat (d) niche
2. competitive exclusion principle
3. competition
4. predation
5. parasitism
6. symbiosis
II. Competition
A. Be able to fully explain and apply the following concepts:
1. interspecific competition
2. intraspecific competition
3. interference competition
4. exploitative competition
5. Why is competition necessary in nature?
III. Predation and Parasitism
A. Be able to fully explain and apply the following concepts:
1. coevolution
2. mimicry: (a) Batesian
mimicry (b) Müllerian mimicry
3. secondary compounds
4. crypticity (camouflage)
IV. Symbiosis
A. Be able to fully explain and apply the following concepts:
1. mutualism
2. commensalism
V. Community Issues
A. Be able to fully explain and apply the following concepts:
1. species richness
2. keystone species
3. ecological succession:
(a) primary succession (b) secondary succession