#Question id: 11410
#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution
Biodiversity hot spots, those areas with the greatest number of endemic species. Which of the following criteria to qualify as a hot spot region?
A. It must contain at least 1,500 species of vascular plants as endemics
B. It must have lost at least 70% of its original habitat
C. It must contain at least 500 species of bird species
D- It must contain high numbers of species
#Question id: 10652
#Section 1: Ecology
Which factors (limited space or overcrowding; limited food; Predators; parasite and diseased) tend to act in a density-dependent manner; Tony Sinclair (1989) many studies of density dependence in 51 populations of insects, 82 populations of large mammals, and 36 populations of small mammals and birds. Which of the following observation is most likely true?
a) Insects showed a wide variety of causes of density dependence and no one density-dependent factor was of overriding importance
b) The lesser the amount of available food, the greater the mortality of large mammals
c) Space and social interactions were more important for smaller mammals and birds, because they are more territorial
#Question id: 16834
#General Aptitude
Which piece corresponds to the given solid?
#Question id: 10866
#Section 2: Evolution
A form of competition, found in desert shrubs and sponges, in which one organism releases a chemical into the environment that inhibits another, is referred to as
#Question id: 11243
#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology
Which of the following would be a hermaphrodite?