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What is habitat heterogeneity?
Describe the latitudinal diversity gradient
What is the purpose of a life table
Definition of semelparous
Definition of iteroparous
What is the principle of allocation
What are the three types of population distribution within a habitat?
Describe the rescue effect of immigration and what impact habitat fragmentation may have on this?
Describe the three main ranges of interactions between species in community ecology
In terms of trophic interaction networks what are consumers and detrivores?
What is the primary productivity of a habitat?
What is the difference between an ecosystem engineer and a keystone species?
What is the definition of a mesopredator?
Give an example of the cascading effects of local extinction.
What are mycorrhizas?
What is EFN?
What is a myrmecophyte?
What is domatia?
Explain parasite extended phenotype
What is the difference between a parasite and a parasitoid?
What is the difference between and endoparasitoid and an ectoparasitoid?
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
What are the five steps of the nitrogen cycle?
What happens during nitrogen fixation?
What happens during nitrification?
What happens during nitrogen assimilation?
What happens during ammonification in the nitrogen cycle?
What happens during dentrification in the nitrogen cycle?
Things like fertiliser run off, soil erosion and sewage dumping cause excess nitrogen, which in turn causes anthropogenic eutrophication. Describe this process.
Describe three forms of weathering that occur to rocks that release phosphate ions during the phosphorus cycle
What is mineralisation in the phosphorus cycle?
What is a hyperparasitoid?
What is superparasitism?
