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#Question id: 3458


Which of the following examples reflects the concept of optimal foraging?

#Section 2: Evolution
  1. During foraging, a mule deer will consume food as soon as it finds it, regardless of the location.

  2. A cheetah will continue a chase for prey, regardless of how long the chase lasts or how much energy is consumed.

  3. A moose spends more time looking for food when the food is high quality than when the food is low quality.

  4. If an animal is hungry it will consume food as soon as it is found, regardless of the food quality or the risk.

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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?