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#Question id: 8851


Why is territoriality an adaptive behavior for songbirds maintaining populations at or near their carrying capacity?

#Section 2: Evolution
  1. Songbirds expend a tremendous amount of energy defending territories so that they spend less time feeding their young and fledgling mortality increases.
  2. Only the fittest males defend territories and they attract the fittest females so the best genes are conveyed to the next generation.
  3. Songbird males defend territories commensurate with the size from which they can derive adequate resources for themselves, their mate, and their chicks.
  4. Many individuals are killed in the ritualistic conflicts that go along with territorial defense.

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#Question id: 11642

#Section 1: Ecology

To obtain optimal yield, populations should be harvested at what part of the sigmoid growth curve ?

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#Question id: 11714

#Section 1: Ecology

In recognizing patchiness in the natural world, ecologists have developed three different models of populations. Which of these recognize(s) that there are differences in the quality of habitat patches without considering effects of differences in habitat quality within the habitat matrix?

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#Question id: 11715

#Section 1: Ecology

The lifetime dispersal area of a particular species of drosophila is 0.2 km2. What else would we need to know to determine the neighbourhood size for this species?

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#Question id: 11716

#Section 1: Ecology

Macroecology addresses patterns of range size and population density. Which of the following statements is true?

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#Question id: 11764

#Section 1: Ecology

The mathematical model for geometric growth of a population is identical to the model for exponential growth, except that __________ in the geometric model.

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#Question id: 11765

#Section 1: Ecology

The population density of a particular insect species was determined to be 15,000 adults per hectare in the summer of 1996, 21,000 adults per hectare in the summer of 1997, and 29,400 adults per hectare in the summer of 1998. Based on these population estimates, what is your estimate of λ, the annual rate of geometric growth?