Before Darwin

Christians interpreted- “special creation”

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Stress tolerators can survive and reproduce under extreme environmental conditions, such as very low water availability, very cold temperatures, or high salt concentrations.

Ex - Lichen, Mangrove plant, cacti, Deserts animal.

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Intermediate - Many perennial herbs adopt a mixture of these strategies and tend to lie in the center of Grime’s triangle.One cannot be a good stress tolerator and a good competitor at the same time

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Metapopulations

Separate Populations That Mutually Affect One Another via Dispersal Fragmented landscapes create fragmented populations, many of which may exchange individuals via migration, creating one linked population

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If individuals in one patch go extinct, other individuals in other patches survive, and they supply individuals

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The proportion of occupied patches will stabilize over time to 1− (x/m) x is the extinction rate of populations in patches per unit time m is the rate of movement between patches

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