4种群特征和动态讲义.pdfVIP

种群(populatoin)概念 第四章 种群特征和动态 ? 在同一时期内占有一定空间的同种生物个体的集合 ? A group of individuals of a single species inhabiting a specific area ? A population of plants or animals might occupy a mountaintop, a river basin, a coastal marsh, or an island, all areas defined by natural boundaries ? The populations studied by biologists occupy artificially defined areas such as a particular country, county, or national park ? The areas inhabited by populations range in size from the few cubic centimeters occupied by the bacteria in a rotting apple to the millions of square kilometers occupied by a population of migratory whales 单体生物和构建生物 “Population”的其他翻译 ? 单体生物(unitary organism)：Those that proceed by a determinate pathway of development of a tightly ? 群体 canalized adult form, e.g. all arthropods and vertebrates ? 居群 ? 构建生物(modular organism)：One that grows by ? 繁群 the repeated iteration of parts, e.g. the leaves, shoots ? 族群：台湾 and branches of a plant, the polyps (珊瑚虫)of a coral or bryozoan