A certain species of pine tree survives only in scattered locations at elevations above 2,800 m in the western United States. To understand why this tree grows only in these specific places an ecologist should

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

The concept of punctuated equilibrium refers to

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Hybrids between some related species of plants are sterile because the parent plants had different chromosome numbers. Occasionally the chromosome number of such a hybrid  plant doubles spontaneously. Which of the following best describes the descendants of those plants with the double chromosome number?

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Which of the following is a biological attribute that would most likely allow a species to become cosmopolitan in distribution?

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The figure shows population growth trajectories over time (as indicated by the arrows) of two stored-grain beetle  species  when  grown  together  under  constant  conditions.  Three  experiments  were  performed  that  differed only in the initial densities of the two species. Which of the following is the best interpretation of the experimental results?

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Keystone species are thought to have profound effects on the structure and composition of ecological communities because they

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

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