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#Question id: 12676


Use the incomplete diagram below, illustrating some of the steps involved in eutrophication to answer the following questions.

What would be a likely entry for box B?

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution
  1. Decomposer population carries on cellular respiration and uses up oxygen
  2. Plants no longer producing oxygen
  3. Warm water holding less oxygen than cold water
  4. Fish that cannot acclimate to low oxygen levels

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#Question id: 12755

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Which of the following statements best describes why biologists are currently concerned with global warming and the thawing of permafrost in many areas of the tundra biome?

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#Question id: 12756

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Flycatcher birds that migrate from Africa to Europe feed their nestlings mostly with moth caterpillars. The data presented show the mean dates of egg laying, hatching, and fledging of flycatcher young, and the 1980 and 2000 peak mass of caterpillars.


The most likely cause for the shift in caterpillar peak mass is

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#Question id: 12759

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

As climate changes because of global warming, species? ranges in the northern hemisphere may move northward. The trees that are most likely to avoid extinction in such an environment are those that

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#Question id: 12760

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Which of the examples below provides appropriate abiotic and biotic factors that might determine the distribution of the species in question?

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#Question id: 12762

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Find  appropriate option for  given question . The figure above depicts the intensity versus frequency curve of an a2coustical receptor of the larva of a noctuid moth. The larva is preyed on by a wasp whose vibrating wings produce a0buzz.
On the basis of the figure, it can be predicted that the wasp buzz 1has a frequency

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#Question id: 12956

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

For  nearly 200  years, biogeographers have  noted that  the  tropics  have  more terrestrial species than  temperate regions. Which of the following is NOT a plausible explanation for this pattern?