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#Question id: 10736


Ecotones are:

#10. Ecological Principles
  1. The boundaries between the discrete ecological units that comprise closed communities.
  2. The boundaries between the discrete ecological units that comprise open communities.
  3. The individual discrete ecological units of closed communities.
  4. The individual discrete ecological units of open communities. 
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#Question id: 12103

#10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following is a good description of an ecological niche? 

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#Question id: 12104

#10. Ecological Principles

Two barnacles, Balanus and Chthamalus, can both survive on the lower rocks just above the low-tide line on the Scottish coast, but only Balanus actually does so, with Chthamalus adopting a higher zone. Which of the following best accounts for this niche separation?

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#Question id: 12105

#10. Ecological Principles

A species of fish is found to require a certain water temperature, a particular oxygen content of the water, a particular depth, a rocky substrate on the bottom, and a variety of nutrients in the form of microscopic plants and animals to thrive. These requirements describe its 

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#Question id: 12106

#10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following best describes resource partitioning?

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#Question id: 12107

#10. Ecological Principles

As you study two closely related predatory insect species, the two-spot and the three-spot avenger beetles, you notice that each species seeks prey at dawn in areas without the other species. However, where their ranges overlap the two-spot avenger beetle hunts at night and the three-spot hunts in the morning. When you bring them into the laboratory, their offspring behave in the same manner. You have discovered an example of

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#Question id: 12108

#10. Ecological Principles

Resource partitioning would be most likely to occur between