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Hello, this is instructor nicole.
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We're going to identify the terms that relate to your descriptions of different ecological concepts or ideas, beginning with trees with cones.
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Those are conifers, which you can remember by looking at the root word.
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They have the same root word.
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All right.
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And then moving on to ecological community species diversity.
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Here we're talking about the complexity of the community.
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The greater the variety of species, the greater the complexity of the community.
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Okay, all members of a species.
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So we're talking about one species.
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That is a population, just like we count the population of people, because people are all one species in a city, town, or stays.
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The important thing to remember in populations, we're talking about the individuals within one species, as opposed to a community where we're talking about multiple species.
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And when we're talking about adjacent communities, those are communities that are next to each other.
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So their relationship along with the abiotic factors in the environment are referred to as edge effects.
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So since they're adjacent, they meet at an edge.
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So we call that edge effect.
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The upper lay of the forest formed by the tallest trees is the canopy.
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Just think of a canopy on a patio that covers the patio, upper foliage of the trees are similarly.
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And then moving on to frequency of individuals in a species compared to all individuals...