Population Ecology

2. Population ___ - Total number of individuals per unit area at a given time
7. Density-___ Factors - Limiting factors affected by population size
8. ___ Number - The minimum number of individuals in a population needed to prevent extinction
9. ___ time - The average time it takes for an individual in a population to reach reproductive maturity and produce offspring
11. ___ - The potential reproductive capacity of an individual or population
13. ___ - Strips of habitat that connect populations
14. Population ___(N) - Total number of individuals within a specific area at a given time
17. ___ Growth Unrestricted growth (J Curve)
18. Population ______ - Male to female proportion
19. ___ Tables - A table highlighting the survivorship of various age classes in a population
21. Population ______ - An analysis by age categories
22. ___ - The ability to produce viable offspring
23. Population ___ - The study of factors causing populations to increase or decrease

1. Population ___- How individuals are dispersed with respect to each other
3. ____ - Used for non-mobile (typically small) animals
4. Carrying ___ (k) - The maximum number of individuals an environment can sustain
5. ____ - Groups of populations of the same species that are separated by space but have occasional interactions
6. ___ Depression - Breeding of closely related individuals leading to fixing of deleterious recessive alleles
10. ___ Rate - The number of offspring produced per unit time by an individual or population
12. ___ - Used for mobile, large species or along gradient
15. Density-___ Factors - Limiting factors not affected by population size
16. ___ Growth - Restricted growth (S Curve)
20. ___ - Also used for mobile, large species or along gradient