BIOL 208 Topic 6 and 7 - Niches and Population Ecology
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Life History
The schedule and characteristics of an organism’s growth, development, reproduction and survival.
Fundamental Niche
The entire range of conditions that an organism could theoretically survive in if there were no confounding factors.
Realized Niche
The actual conditions that an organism could survive in, considering factors like competition, predation, and resource availability.
Hypervolume
A multi-dimensional representation of a species’s ecological niche.
Population
A group of independantly interbreeding and interacting individuals of a single species inhabiting a specific area.
Small Scale
Little environmental change that is significant to the organism of study.
Large Scale
Substantial environmental change that is significant to the organism of study.