#Question id: 12675
#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution
#Question id: 11179
#Section 1: Ecology
The defended portion of a home range is called the
#Question id: 3479
#Section 2: Evolution
Which of the following could be classified as habituation?
A) You enter a room and hear a fan motor. After a period of time, you are no longer aware of the motorʹs noise.
B) You hear a horn while driving your car. You step on the brakes but notice the sound came from a side street. You resume your previous speed.
C) One morning you awake to a beep-beep-beep from a garbage truck working on a new early morning schedule. The next week the garbage truck arrives at the same time and makes the same noise, but does not wake you up.
#Question id: 10584
#Section 1: Ecology
The logistic equation above is used to describe the rate of change of a population, N, with time, t, where r is the intrinsic rate of increase and K is the carrying capacity. Which of the following statements is true for this equation?
#Question id: 11256
#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology
Inferences built on the idea that evolutionarily older and younger characters should be found among close relatives if they are linked by evolution has been elaborated into a branch of evolutionary biology known as __________.