The pufferfish, a common marine fish, has extensive spines that extend outward when it swallows water, becoming several times its normal size. This is an example of what kind of defense against predation?

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Based on the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, a community’s species diversity is increased by

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In order for mimicry to be effective in protecting a species from predation, it must

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The proximate causes of behavior are interactions with the environment, but behavior is ultimately shaped by

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In a study of tree dispersion in a forest, we divided the forest into 1 sq km grid cells, choose 50 of them at random, and counted the number of trees in each cell. The means to variance ratio of the counts of trees per cell was much less than 1. What does this tell us about the spatial distribution of the trees?

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In a discrete-time population model, which of the following behaviours is associated when 1 < r < 2?