Erwin and Scott used an insecticidal fog to knock down insects from the top section of a L. seemannii tree. The researchers identified over 900 species of beetles among the individuals that fell. Erwin also projected that this entire tree from top to bottom is host to about 600 arthropod species that are unique to this tree species and not found on any other tree species. There are approximately 50,000 species of tropical trees. Although it could not be entirely accurate, what would be the best way to estimate the total number of arthropod species?

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#Question id: 10719

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Five Hypotheses Explain How Species Richness Affects Community Services, Following statement are given

A) Community services decline with decreased species richness in a stepwise fashion.

B) Species that play the same roles in a community can compensate for each other if some are lost under particular conditions

C) Species richness declines even slightly from its natural levels, community services are reduced immediately

D) Community services change as the number of species increases or decreases, but that the direction of change is not predictable.

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

What is the Jaccard index between the two communities?

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#Question id: 10721

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which above spp having decrease order of abundance?

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#Question id: 10722

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Community 1 contains 100 individuals distributed among four species (A, B, C, and D). Community 2 contains 100 individuals distributed among three species (A, B, and C). Community 1: 5A, 5B, 85C, 5D Community 2: 30A, 40B, 30C Calculate the Shannon diversity (H) for each community.

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

What does the graph tell you about the effect of a keystone species?

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#Question id: 10724

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

This example is based on the hypothetical ( x means Present), compare species diversity within different community Which one of the

following conclusions is most appropriate based on the above observations?

A) The beta diversity between the community X and Y is 5

B) The gamma diversity for the these communities are 14

C) The beta diversity between the community X and Z is greater than Y and Z

D) Community Y has minimum Alpha diversity among community