Natural selection can act in three main ways on a character, such as body size, that is continuously distributed. Following graph represent fitness and their relative body size after the exposure of natural selection at different way? Which of the above population influence to which type of natural selection?

#Question id: 12355

#Section 1: Ecology

#Question id: 4618

#Section 2: Evolution

Which of the following observations helped Darwin shape his concept of descent with modification?

#Question id: 10643

#Section 2: Evolution

Population of ground squirrels has an annual per capita birth rate of 0.06 and an annual per capita death rate of 0.02) Estimate the number of individuals added to (or lost from) a population of 1,000 individuals in one year.

#Question id: 12110

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

#Question id: 10652

#Section 1: Ecology

Which factors (limited space or overcrowding; limited food; Predators; parasite and diseased) tend to act in a density-dependent manner; Tony Sinclair (1989) many studies of density dependence in 51 populations of insects, 82 populations of large mammals, and 36 populations of small mammals and birds. Which of the following observation is most likely true?

a) Insects showed a wide variety of causes of density dependence and no one density-dependent factor was of overriding importance

b) The lesser the amount of available food, the greater the mortality of large mammals

c) Space and social interactions were more important for smaller mammals and birds, because they are more territorial