Chapter 25
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cait_freschi on April 24, 2012
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Community Ecology
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Habitat | the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs |
| Niche | (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species) |
| Predation | an interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism |
| Aposematic Coloration | The bright coloration of animals with effective physical or chemical defenses that acts as a warning to predators |
| Cryptic Coloration | Camouflage that makes a potential prey difficult to spot against its background. |
| Batesian Mimicry | evolution by one species to resemble the coloration body shape or behavior of another species that is protected from predators by a venomous stinger bad taste or some other defensive adaptation |
| Mullerian Mimicry | evolution of two species, both of which are unpalatable and, have poisonous stingers or some other defense mechanism, to resemble each other |
| Primary Succession | an ecological succession that begins in a an area where no biotic community previously existed |
| Secondary Succession | succession following a disturbance that destroys a community without destroying the soil |
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