Ch. 7

Some prey use poison like the oleander plant, some are irritating like the stinging nettles and bombardier beetles, some smell foul like the skunk skunk cabbage and stinkbugs, and some taste bad like the buttercup or the monarch butterfly.

Stable community that has long-lived plants and in balance with environment

Ability of a living system to keep within the limits imposed by available resources

remove and recycle dung as a food source for newly hatched larvae. Also churn and aerate the soil for plants. Basically recycle animal wastes

Lichen and mosses that go to a new area by the spores carried by wind or animals

Plants that attach to trunks or branches of trees in tropical forests, with better access to sunlight, ex of commensalism

When a species modifies the environment to make it easier for other species to move in

ability of a living system to resist being disturbed or altered

Ability of a living system to bounce back and repair damage after a disturbance that is not too drastic

When species evolve to use resources at different times places or ways

Act and look like other species, like the poisonous viceroy looks like a monarch

Predator sea star that acts as a keystone species by preventing mussels from overcrowding

Abundance of individuals within each species

Number of different species

Keystone species that regulate the populations of other species

Brightly colored warning that enables experienced predators to avoid the prey

Number of different species depends on the rate at which new species immigrate and the rate at which they become extinct.