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#Question id: 11776


According to optimal foraging theory, longer travel time

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology
  1. Favours longer search time and more frequent trips
  2. Favours longer search time and less frequent trips
  3. Favours shorter search time and more frequent trips
  4. Favors shorter search time and less frequent trips
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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?

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#Question id: 12290

#Section 1: Ecology

A mating system in which one organism of one sex mates with only one member of the opposite sex is called ___________.

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#Question id: 16891

#Section 3: Mathematics and Quantitative Ecology

Which of the following is not a correct way to state a null hypothesis?

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#Question id: 9278

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Bilin pigments are open-chain tetrapyrroles found in antenna structures known as phycobilisomes that occur in

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#Question id: 10663

#Section 2: Evolution

Following is a hypothetical life table of species


Following some statement is given

A- This type of life table is characteristic of species that produce a large number of offspring

B- Its greatest mortality early in life, with relatively low rates of death for those surviving this bottleneck

C. It is characterized by high age-specific survival probability in early and middle life, followed by a rapid decline in survival in later life

D. This includes k selected species

Which of the following above statement is correct?