Population and Community Ecology Crossword

Statistics that describe a population.
Number of individuals per unit area.
Location of population members relative to one another; clumped, uniformly dispersed, or randomly dispersed.
Total number of individuals in a population.
Interval in which births equal deaths.
A population grows by a fixed percentage in successive time intervals; the size of each increase is determined by the current population size.
Maximum number of individuals of a species that a particular environment can sustain; can change over time.
Group of individuals born during the same interval.
Expected number of children a women will bear over the course of a lifetime.
Area of Earth's surface required to sustainably support a particular level of development and consumption.
Model describing the changes in human birth and death rates that occur as a region becomes industrialized.
Species interaction that benefits one species and neither helps nor harms the other.
One species lives in or on another in a commensal, mutualistic, or parasitic relationship.
Al species that live in a particular area.
All of a species' requirements and roles in a ecosystem.
An evolutionary pattern in which one species becomes more similar in appearance to another.
Species whose presence and abundance in a community provides information about conditions in the community.
Species that can colonize a new habitat.
A species that evolved in one community and later became established in a different one.
A species that has a disproportionately large effect on community structure relative to its abundance.