Essentials of Ecology

96 CHAPTER 4 Biodiversity and Evolution forage plants that benefit smaller grazing species such as antelope. It also accelerates ...

ACADEMIC.CENGAGE.COM/BIOLOGY/MILLER 97 All we have yet discovered is but a trifle in comparison with what lies hid in the great ...

98 CHAPTER 4 Biodiversity and Evolution Note: See Supplement 13 (p. S78) for a list of Projects related to this chapter. CRITICA ...

ACADEMIC.CENGAGE.COM/BIOLOGY/MILLER 99 LEARNING ONLINE Log on to the Student Companion Site for this book at academic.cengage.co ...

CORE CASE STUDY a result, they help to generate millions of dollars a year in tourism income in coastal areas where they are fou ...

101 Species Interact in Five Major Ways Ecologists identify five basic types of interactions be- tween species that share limite ...

102 CHAPTER 5 Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control The greater this overlap the more intense their compe- ...

CONCEPT 5-1 103 (a) Span worm (b) Wandering leaf insect (c) Bombardier beetle (d) Foul-tasting monarch butterfly (f) Viceroy but ...

104 CHAPTER 5 Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control quencies, they try to escape by dropping to the ground ...

CONCEPT 5-1 105 race, each step in this process takes hundreds to thou- sands of years. Some Species Feed off Other Species by L ...

106 CHAPTER 5 Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control In Some Interactions, Both Species Benefit In mutualism ...

CONCEPT 5-2 107 5-2 How Can Natural Selection Reduce Competition between Species? CONCEPT 5-2 Some species develop adaptations t ...

108 CHAPTER 5 Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control Populations Have Certain Characteristics Populations di ...

CONCEPT 5-3 109 (a)Clumped (elephants) (b)Uniform (creosote bush) (c)Random (dandelions) Figure 5-10 Generalized dispersion patt ...

110 CHAPTER 5 Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control Environmental resistance is the combination of all fact ...

CONCEPT 5-3 111 New Guinea, and Australia. After World War II, a few of these snakes stowed away on military planes going to the ...

112 CHAPTER 5 Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control THINKING ABOUT Population Overshoot and Human Ecologica ...

CONCEPT 5-3 113 Genetic Diversity Can Affect the Size of Small Populations In most large populations, genetic diversity is fairl ...

114 CHAPTER 5 Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control such systems. Others scientists contend that it may rep ...

CONCEPT 5-4 115 States than do any other wild animals. Each year, these 1.5 million accidents injure at least 14,000 people and ...