#Question id: 11255
#Section 1: Ecology
Antiherbivore defenses in Umbelliferous plants and the insects feeding on these plants has shown that:
#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?
#Question id: 11777
#Section 1: Ecology
Some of the species of stalk-eyed flies are sexually dimorphic, with males having eye stalks up to twice as long as those in females. This gender difference in eye span results from selection by females on the expression of this trait in males, a process called __________.
#Question id: 16903
#Section 3: Mathematics and Quantitative Ecology
#Question id: 10652
#Section 2: Evolution
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