Chapter 9 Crossword Puzzle

resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and recovering quickly
the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment
is the change in the frequency of a gene variant (allele) in a population due to random sampling of organisms.
is the increasing concentration of a substance, such as a toxic chemical, in the tissues of organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain
the ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself
fire, flood, earthquake
predation, parasitism, infectious disease
if a species moves to a new area, they are the "founding fathers"
makes a J curve
logistic growth
the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
opportunists, generalists, small offspring
competitors, specialists, large offspring
the preying of an organism by another organism