Review the formula for effective population size. Imagine a population of 1,000 small rodents. Of these, 300 are breeding females, 300 are breeding males, and 400 are nonbreeding  juveniles.  What is the effective  population size?

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#Question id: 11354

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

C.B. Huffaker was able to maintain experimental populations of predator and prey (using species of mites) that exhibited recurring oscillations. What feature of Huffaker's experimental design was critical to this outcome?

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#Question id: 11355

#Section 4: Behavioural 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)?

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#Question id: 11358

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

In Holling's functional responses of predators, what is the most fundamental difference between a Type I functional response versus Type II and Type III functional responses?

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#Question id: 11359

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

A predator exhibiting switching behaviour would be expected to underrepresent the prey in its diet (compared to the abundance of prey in the environment) when the prey is at __________ density.

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#Question id: 11360

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

Which of the following can contribute to the numerical response of a predator?

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#Question id: 11361

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

Which of the following tends to stabilize predator-prey relationships?