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#Question id: 12347


A team of conservation biologists, surveying a population of frogs on an island, captured and marked 312 individuals in the first sample. In a second sampling, 3 days later, the team caught 140 individuals of which 26 were previously marked. The total number of frogs on the island is estimated to be . (Use decimal notation, not fractions or percentage)

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. 1000 
  2. 1330 
  3. 1700 
  4.  980
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#Question id: 10892

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Considering environment and ecosystem, identify the INCORRECT statement

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#Question id: 11265

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Approximately how many kg of carnivore production can be supported by a field plot containing 2000 kg of plant material?

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#Question id: 11266

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following options lists ecosystems in increasing order of consumption efficiency of herbivore?

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#Question id: 11276

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Following statement regarding efficiency at different tropic level for secondary production?

A-high production efficiency individual able to survive at little food

B-production efficiency decrease toward increase tropic level 

C-aquatic herbivore is more efficient grazer than terrestrial grazer

D- Carnivore assimilation efficiency appear to average around 10%

Which above combination are correct?

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#Question id: 11277

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

If a species is a keystone predator, then its removal from a community should

(A) Increase population size of the predator’s preferred prey

(B) decrease species diversity in the prey community

(C) decrease productivity of the predator’s preferred prey

(D) increase species diversity in the prey community

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#Question id: 11278

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following is true with respect to oligotrophic lakes and eutrophic lakes?

A) Oligotrophic lakes are less subject to oxygen depletion.

B) Rates of photosynthesis are lower in eutrophic lakes.

C) Eutrophic lake water contains higher concentrations of nutrients.

D)Sediments in oligotrophic lakes contain larger amounts of decomposable organic matter.