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Reading to be done before Class:
ESBS Chapter 6
Come to class with a basic familiarity with
the following concepts and ideas:
Competition, predation, parasitism, herbivory, mutualism,
amensalism, commensalism, trophic levels, primary consumer,
secondary, tertiary consumers, herbivores, omnivores, dettrivores,
trophic pyramid, food web, keystone species, succession, invasive
species, biome
Ecological Communities
Example-Karner
Blue Butterfly in the Indiana Dunes (more
info)
- Organisms
- Populations (Karner
Blue Population Map)
- Communities
Communities of the Indiana Dunes Video
Interrelationships in Communities
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Habitat
- Ecotone
- Niche
- Predation
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Mutualism
(more
info)
- Commensalism
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Competition
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Amensalism
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Allelopathy
Why is the Karner Blue Butterfly endangered?
Food
chains
- Otters and Sea Urchins
- Primary Producers (Autotrophs)
- Consumers
(Heterotrophs)
Trophic
Levels and the Biotic
Pyramid
- Primary Producers
- Herbivores
- Carnivores
- Omnivores
- Top Predators
- Decomposition (Detritivores)
Invasive Species
Succession
Biomes
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Environmental
Conservation 
