{"id":227,"date":"2011-11-13T10:38:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T17:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2011-11-13T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T18:23:44","slug":"key-terms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/ecological\/key-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=3 cellspacing=10>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n      Ecology\n    <\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n      The study of organisms, both plant and animal, and how they interact with each other\n    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n      Mutual Adaptation\n    <\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n      Also known as mutualism, where species change (adapt) such that other species also benefit.  A win-win situation.\n    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n      Keystone Species\n    <\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n     A species that has a great (disproportionate) effect on its environment\n    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n      Invader Species\n    <\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n      A non-native species that is introduced into a new environment and has a competitive advantage\n    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n      Reciprocal Altruism\n    <\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n      When a species or organism does temporary harm (or takes a disadvantage) to itself in order to help a different orgranism\n    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n     Meme\n    <\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n     An idea, behaviour, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture (Webster, n.d.)\n    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n     Longevity\n    <\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n      The ability for a species to replicate without making errors. The resistance to disadvantageous change\n    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n     Copy Fidelity\n    <\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#F1F8E0\">\n      The favouring of a trait in reproduction because it has less errors\n    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecology The study of organisms, both plant and animal, and how they interact with each other Mutual Adaptation Also known as mutualism, where species change (adapt) such that other species also benefit. A win-win situation. Keystone Species A species that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/ecological\/key-terms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10249,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions\/243"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}