The following figure is a model of seedling establishment as a function of distance from a parent tree. Initial seed density measures the number of seeds falling to the ground. Seed survivorship measures the proportion of seeds that survive to the adult stage at each distance

Which of the following factors is most likely to generate the seed density curve shown? 

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Following table shows the number of individuals of different species in two communities, X and Y. Use simple matching index determine the degree of similarity between X and Y community?

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

The figure above shows the distribution of 10 plant species that grow along a regular environmental gradient, such as depth of the water table in a river valley. All other environmental factors are similar. This figure demonstrates that

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Increased solar energy, together with an abundance of water, results in high productivity of plants is an characteristics of____

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Based on the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, a community’s species diversity is increased by

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Five Hypotheses Explain How Species Richness Affects Community Services

I-Elton’s hypothesis

II-rivet hypothesis

III-Redundancy hypothesis

IV-Keystone hypothesis

V-Idiosyncratic hypothesis

a) Species that play the same roles in a community can compensate for each other if some are lost under particular conditions

b) Community services change as the number of species increases or decreases

c) there is a linear correlation between species richness and community services

d) species is an organism that helps hold the system together

e)Some species play a small but critical role in keeping the plane

Correctly match the following hypothesis with their correct  prediction;

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Succession on a newly exposed site that was not previously occupied by soil and vegetation refers to