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Ecology

Students must know...

The role of abiotic factors in the formation of biomes.
How biotic and abiotic factors affect the distribution of biomes.
How changes in these factors may alter ecosystems.
How density, dispersion, and demographics can describe a population.
The differences between exponential and logistic models of population growth.
How density-dependent and density-independent factors can control population growth.
How a change in matter or energy will affect the population or community.
The effect of age distributions and fecundity on human populaitons as presented in age-structure pyramids.
The difference between a fundamental niche and realized niche.
The role of competitve exclusion in interspecific competition.
The symbiotic relationships of parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism.
The impact of keystone species on community structure.
The difference between primary and secondary succession.
How energy flows through the ecosystem in relations to food chains and food webs.
The difference between gross primary productivity and net primary productivity.
The carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles.
How biogeochemical cycles impact individual organisms and/or populations and ecosystems.
The value of biodiversity and the major human threats to it.
How human actions are changing the Earth.
How to predict the consequences on both local and global ecosystems of specific human activities.