#Question id: 11355
#Section 1: Ecology
In the Lotka-Volterra population model for a prey population, dV/dt = rV - cVP, what is the meaning of the last term in the model (-cVP)?
#Question id: 10665
#Section 2: Evolution
Complete the following hypothetical life table of a species.
Initial population size is 1000. What will be population size in next generation?
#Question id: 11765
#Section 1: Ecology
The population density of a particular insect species was determined to be 15,000 adults per hectare in the summer of 1996, 21,000 adults per hectare in the summer of 1997, and 29,400 adults per hectare in the summer of 1998. Based on these population estimates, what is your estimate of λ, the annual rate of geometric growth?
#Question id: 10661
#Section 2: Evolution
Semelparous species are those that produce all of their offspring in a single reproductive event. The survivorship curve of a population of a semelparous species would most likely resemble which of the following?
#Question id: 3318
#Section 2: Evolution
When members of a metal- torerant and metal sensitive species that initially occupied the same habitat within the same range diverge into two species due to starting to show a change in their flowering season. This process known as