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| 4908879554 | community | a group of populations of different species living close enough to interact | 0 | |
| 4908882777 | interspecific interactions | a relationship between individuals of two or more species in a community | 1 | |
| 4908892049 | interspecific competition | when individuals of different species compete for a resource | 2 | |
| 4908895499 | competitive exclusion | the elimination of the inferior competitor | 3 | |
| 4908898632 | ecological niche | the sum of a species use of the biotic and abiotic resources in its environment | 4 | |
| 4908902266 | resource partitioning | the differentiation of niches that enables similar species to coexist | 5 | |
| 4908908092 | character displacement | characteristics to diverge in the same two species | 6 | |
| 4908912762 | predation | kills | 7 | |
| 4908912763 | cryptic coloration | camo | 8 | |
| 4908914328 | aposematic coloration | warning colors | 9 | |
| 4908915722 | batesian mimicry | a harmless species imitates a harmful one | 10 | |
| 4908917420 | mullerian mimicry | two harmful species resemble each others | 11 | |
| 4908919764 | symbiosis | when 2+ species live in a direct an intimate contact with one another | 12 | |
| 4908924077 | species diversity | the variety of different kinds of organisms | 13 | |
| 4908930857 | species richness | the number of different species in the community | 14 | |
| 4908932374 | relative abundance | the proportion of each species represents of all individuals in the community | 15 | |
| 4908936490 | shannon diversity | an index of diversity based on species richness and relative abundance | 16 | |
| 4908939829 | trophic structure | the structure and dynamics of a community depend on feeding relationships | 17 | |
| 4908943797 | food chain | transfer of food energy up the trophic levels | 18 | |
| 4908968411 | food webs | linked food chains | 19 | |
| 4908969825 | energetic hypothesis | explains why food chains are short. energy transfer is very short | 20 | |
| 4908972703 | dynamic stability hypothesis | explains why food chains are short. long food chains are unstable | 21 | |
| 4908975083 | dominant species | species that are the most abundant | 22 | |
| 4908978502 | facilitators | they alter the structure or dynamics of the environment | 23 | |
| 4908981580 | top-down model | the higher trophic levels influence the lower ones | 24 | |
| 4908984915 | bottom-up model | lower trophic levels influence the higher ones | 25 | |
| 4908990165 | nonequilibrium model | describes most communities as constantly changing after being affected by disturbances | 26 | |
| 4908993350 | immediate disturbance hypothesis | moderate levels of disturbance can make greater species diversity | 27 | |
| 4908996786 | ecological succession | a disturbed area that's colonized by species, and gets colonized again | 28 | |
| 4909002259 | primary succession | life starts on barren land | 29 | |
| 4909003871 | secondary succession | when an existing community has been cleared | 30 | |
| 4909007677 | evapotranspiration | the evaporation of water from soil plus the transpiration of water from plants | 31 | |
| 4909009406 | species-area curve | a plot with # of species in an area | 32 | |
| 4909012532 | pathogens | disease causing organisms | 33 | |
| 4909014995 | zoonotic pathogens | transferred from animals to humans | 34 | |
| 4909017503 | vector | spreads disease | 35 |
