Summary: Introduction To Animal Ecology
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1 Lecture 1
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What is the main difference between animals and plants?
Plants are modular and vertebrates are unitary organisms -
What three scale levels are there and what do they indicate?
Individuals: traits
Populations: density
- Structure
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What does population level entail?
The functioning of a group of individualorganisms of the same species in a definedlocation -
2 Lecture 2
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Difference between allopatric and sympatric:
Allopatric is in a different area
sympatric is at the same location -
What is diverge evolution?
Divergent evolution is when species start to differ from each other, but have a same ancestor -
How to know if animals adapted or changed?
- Correlation: do spatial patters line up with trait variation? (trait similarity across areas)
- Experimental: transplant experiments
- Correlation: do spatial patters line up with trait variation? (trait similarity across areas)
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Difference between analogous and homologous
Analogous = same function
Homologous = same ancestor -
3 Lecture 3 en 4
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What do conditions influence?
They influence direct physiological responses and interactions among animals -
What does Q10 temperature coefficient mean?
With 10 steps of x, y doubles -
What is the influence of higher temperatures/global warming on nature?
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