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Q: Understand limiting factors such as and explain: a. Limiting Factors Resource availability…

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Q: Why might individuals give up defending territories if the density of their population increases?

A: Because of the expanded trouble of defending the territory.

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Q: What happens if species with incomplete reproductive barriers come into contact with one another?

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Q: why might an overfished stock never recover to its original population level?

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A: The data in the figure plotted food delivered on Y axis at respective ice concentration on X axis

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A: a.commensalism It is a positive interaction  between individuals of two species  in which one…

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Q: The abundance of a species population, within its habitat, is called?

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Q: Describe what survivorship curves can tell you about a species’ reproductive strategies.

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Q: Why is functional response to prey density important in ecological research?

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Q: Research and find a K-selected species (other than humans), and explain the pressures and resources…

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Q: a. In the Smokies, Hairston discovered the removal of an average of 18 P. jordani within altitudinal…

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Q: Use the following simple predator-prey relationships to answer the questions about the system below…

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Communities and Ecosystems

Ecology contains two words: Eikos means dwelling, and logy means to study, so the combined meaning is studying habitat or living.