Given some characteristics of the climax community

i) Tolerate its own reactions

ii) Tends to become mesic

iii) Less stable

iv) Complex stratification

v) Simple food web

vi) Less mutualism

vii) Gross production is equals to community respiration

viii) Net community production is zero

Which of the following combination shows the characteristics of climax community?

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#Question id: 12104

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Two barnacles, Balanus and Chthamalus, can both survive on the lower rocks just above the low-tide line on the Scottish coast, but only Balanus actually does so, with Chthamalus adopting a higher zone. Which of the following best accounts for this niche separation?

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#Question id: 12105

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

A species of fish is found to require a certain water temperature, a particular oxygen content of the water, a particular depth, a rocky substrate on the bottom, and a variety of nutrients in the form of microscopic plants and animals to thrive. These requirements describe its 

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#Question id: 12107

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

As you study two closely related predatory insect species, the two-spot and the three-spot avenger beetles, you notice that each species seeks prey at dawn in areas without the other species. However, where their ranges overlap the two-spot avenger beetle hunts at night and the three-spot hunts in the morning. When you bring them into the laboratory, their offspring behave in the same manner. You have discovered an example of

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#Question id: 4932

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following is the best hypothesis regarding origins of nucleic acids?

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#Question id: 27686

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following factors are involved to determine the realized niches of organisms?

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#Question id: 26937

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Considering below graph, the following statements were made: