6–8% of the AP exam. Key topics: Types of biodiversity: genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity, Ecosystem services (provisioning, regulating, cultural, supporting), Island biogeography theory (species-area relationship, immigration and extinction rates), Ecological tolerance and range of tolerance, Natural disruptions to ecosystems (fire, flood, disease, drought), Ecological succession: primary succession, Ecological succession: secondary succession, Pioneer species and climax communities.
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