Disturbancescan alter a community’s stable environmental conditions, also called its:a.frequency.b.intensity.c.heterogeneity.d.equilibrium.e.niche space.

Q: What is a fundamental niche?

A: The total collection of circumstances that allow an animal (population, species) to survive and…

Q: patial scales are interconnected in a hierarchical way. Whitman looked at invertebrate communities…

A: The diversity of species that lives together in ecological communities should be a result of…

Q: Species richness refers to Group of answer choices a. number of species in a community b. how even…

A: Introduction Species Richness (S) Refers To The Number Of Species Found In A Given Area.

Q: Organismsthat produce many offspring would best be characterized by which of thefollowing?a.A convex…

A: A survivorship curve is a graph that measures the proportion of people in an exceedingly given…

Q: Although a species might be physiologically able to live under a wide range of resource conditions,…

A: Ecology is the study of interaction of an organism with its environment.

Q: What contributions anthropology can make to the understanding of issues in ecology on a global…

A: Anthropology is the study of people, past and present, with a focus on understanding the human…

Q: Which of the following will affect the biotic potential of a species?a. length of time it takes an…

A: Ecology is the study of the associations among living organisms and their physical environment.A…

Q: Character displacement is likely to the competition coefficients in two competing species and to…

A: Competition exists when the resources are inadequate to meet the demands of the population and this…

Q: APredator and its prey interact __________, but if the predator affects anotherspecies through this…

A: The study of organisms in their indigenous environment is called ecology. Numerous organisms live…

Q: The theory of Island Biogeography predicts species richness based on __ and __ rates. a. growth and…

A: A patch is a landscape or a place which contains all the necessary food supplements for a group of…

Q: Which of the following hypotheses proposes an initial rapid increase in ecosystem function with a…

A: When all the biotic and abiotic components of the nature inhabit a particular geographical area in a…

Q: What does the data suggest? What does anova P = .45 means? Could you explain the above details…

A: Introduction- Annova is the "Test of Variance" that indicate the variations in three or more groups.…

Q: The__________ defines the physical conditions under which a species might live, inthe absence of…

A: The presence of the biotic and abiotic factors in a particular region and their interaction with…

Q: "Why There Are So Many Species?", is a - maybe the central question in ecology. To answer it, one…

A: The quantity of species found within a given area is known as species richness. Using sampling or a…

Q: The moray eel and cleaner wrasse story at the beginning of the chapter is an example of which type…

A: The organisms live in close contact with each other and may form relations each other regarding…

Q: Ecosystems include which of the following components that communities do not?a. energy transfer…

A: The study of interrelationship between the living organisms and its environment is known as ecology.…

Q: The maximum growth rate of a population under ideal conditions iscalled thea. carrying capacity. d.…

A: Biotic potential

Q: Early colonizers excluding subsequent colonists from moving into acommunity is referred to asa.…

A: facilitation is where one organism favours the other. inhibition is exclusion of subsequent…

Q: A very rapid exponential increase in a population only occurs when: O a. It is a tropical species. O…

A: Population with unlimited natural resources tend to grow very rapidly. But the growth decreases as…

Q: Species with limited resources usually exhibit a(n)________ growth curve.a. logisticb. logicalc.…

A: THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL OF A PARTICULAR SPECIES THAT A PARTICULAR ENVIRONMENT CAN SUPPORT IS CALLED…

Q: What are the benefits of applying equations to ecological systems?

A: Equations applied on the ecosystem help us in: - Making concepts and parameters easier to…

Q: 3. What would happen if there was not a lot of variety in the bears when they first reached the…

A: The theory of evolution by natural selection, first formulated in Charles Darwin's book "On the…

Q: The carrying capacity of a species is. O a The minimum number for the species to survive. Ob…

A: An ecosystem is a geographical section of living (biotic) and non-living(abiotic) factors…

Q: In Pulliam 2000 (a paper we read for class), what aspects did the author incorporate to extend the…

A: G. Evelyn Hutchinson has proposed the concept to characterize the ecological niche of a species as a…

Q: What is a realized niche? O The environmental conditions in which a species can live. O The…

A: Introduction: Ecology studies the interactions between living things and the settings in which they…

Q: Space is an example of a density. O Independent / abiotic O Independent/biotic O Dependent / abiotic…

A: The growth of the population depends on several factors. Some of the factors depends on the density…

Q: The comprises all interactions between individuals of the same species in a given geographic area.…

A: Given: Ecology is the study of interactions among organisms and bwteen the organism and its physical…

Q: A species that has an immediate threat to extinction is said to be:a. threatened. c. alien.b.…

A: All organisms in an ecosystem can be threatened , endangered or extinct if subject to non ideal…

Q: Mowingexperiments in a Kansas prairie established that, for small mammals:a.moving individuals…

A: Mowing experiments in a Kansas prairie established that for small mammals is conceptualized with…

Q: In identifying where a species may live the concept of the niche is often used. As part of this…

A: It is required to identify the difference between fundamental and realized niche.

Q: Characteristics of the Hutchinsonian niche are O a. the niche is formed by species distribution…

A: Hutchinson niche in 1957 proposed the concept of Hutchinsonian niche which is also called n-…

Q: Anannual plant when initially colonizing an area will probably demonstrate:a.annual growth…

A: Introduction  Ecological succession is the gradual phenomenon in which an ecosystem for a particular…

Q: redation influences demography and individual fitness in some ecological settings. Discuss scenarios…

A: Ecological interactions between organisms are also responsible for maintaining balance in the…

Q: The "principle of tolerance limits".. O relates species abundance and distribution to the…

A: * principle of tolerance developed by American zoologist victor Ernest shelford. * It states that…

Q: Sunlight drives the production of terrestrial grasses along the bank of a tropical river. Hippo…

A: Sunlight drives the production of terrestrial grasses along the bank of a tropical river. Hippo…

Q: Fragmentation (dividing up) of a habitat results in an edge-effect. The edge between grassland and…

A: Edge effect lead to change in abundance and community structure between two contrasting habitats. It…

Q: What is the structure theory of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory? 2. What is the nature…

A: Florence Nightingale's Environmental theory deals with the patient's environment and external…

Q: Consider an ecological network consisting of three interconnected habitats (A B C A). Ecologists…

A: Here the study of how to prevent the loss of biological diversity on the planet is called…

Q: The key finding ofl a study with butterflies and habitat fragmentation by Haddad and colleagues was…

A: Habitat fragmentation is characterised as the transformation of a wide expanse of habitat into a…

Q: Which of the following is the definition for species richness?   A. The number of species in a…

A: When a group of living organisms comprises the same type of individuals, who are able to exchange…

Q: Two species of aquatic snails live in a nearby creek. Species A is a very strong competitor of…

A: Answer. The fundamental niche is the maximum theoretical inhibited hypervolume where a species, free…

Q: Wayne Sousa glued small boulders in place within an intertidal boulder field in Santa Barbara and…

A: Wayne Philip Sousa is a notable biologist and scientist. He works at the University of California,…

Q: latch the terms with the most suitable descriptior data _probability b. unique type of organism…

A: Autotrophs, also referred to as producers, are organisms that generate their own food. They are the…

Q: Ronald Ross’s major contribution to the development of ecological science was… a. the creation of a…

A: Ronald Ross was a Nobel Prize winner medical doctor based in Britain and was presented with a Nobel…

Q: A. What is the carrying capacity of this Grey Squirrel population? B. Grey Squirrels are invasice…

A: Carrying capacity of a population is the maximum number of individuals can present in a population.…

Q: Biodiversity hotspotsa. have few populations because the temperature is too hot.b. contain about 20%…

A: A biodiversity hotspot is a region with a high concentration of endemic species, that is, species…

Q: a black bear accidentally stepped on a ladybug beetle, and the beetle survived. What type of…

A: Introduction: All the populations of all the many species that coexist in a specific location make…

Ecological adaptations

An ecological adaptation is any morphological, physiological, or behavioral trait of an organism that allows it to survive and reproduce in a habitat or ecosystem. Adaptation is a biological mechanism by which an organism gradually gets more acclimated to its surroundings.