Claytonia virginica is a woodland spring herb with flowers that vary from white, to pale pink, to bright pink. Slugs prefer to eat pink-flowering over white-flowering plants (due to chemical differences between the two), and plants experiencing severe herbivory are more likely to die. The bees that pollinate this plant also prefer pink to white flowers, so that Claytonia with pink flowers have greater relative fruit set than Claytonia with white flowers. A researcher observes that the percentage of different flower colors remains stable in the study population from year to year. Given no other information, if the researcher removes all slugs from the study population, what do you expect to happen to the distribution of flower colors in the population over time?

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#Section 1: Ecology

Use the graph to answer the following question

In the figure, which of the following survivorship curves implies that an animal may lay many eggs, of which a regular number die each year on a logarithmic scale?

#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: 10653

#Section 1: Ecology

All offspring are produced in a single reproductive event, we term this pattern semelparity. Which of the following is characteristics feature for semelparity individuals?

a) Semelparity is common in insects and other invertebrates

b) Semelparous organisms may live for many years before reproducing

c) semelparity occur only in plant

d) In semelparity, exploitation competition is more common than interference competition

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#Section 1: Ecology

Complete the following hypothetical life table for a bird

What will be population size in next generation?

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#Section 1: Ecology

Which of the following statements about the evolution of life histories is correct?

A) Unstable environments with unlimited resources favor r-selected populations.

B) K-selected populations are most often found in environments where density-independent factors are important regulators of population size.

C) Most populations have both r- and K-selected characteristics that vary under different environmental conditions.

D) The reproductive efforts of r-selected populations are directed at producing just a few offspring with good competitive abilities.

#Question id: 10658

#Section 1: Ecology

The accompanying figure shows population growth pattern for two species in the same habitat

Which of the following conclusions hold true?