Exam 53: Population Ecology

Long-term studies of Belding's ground squirrels show that immigrants move nearly 2 kilometers from where they are born and become 1%-8% of the males and 0.7%-6% of the females in other populations. On an evolutionary scale, why is this significant?

Suppose researchers marked 800 turtles and later were able to trap a total of 300 individuals in that population, of which 150 were marked. What is the estimate for total population size?

Use the figure to answer the following question. The figure represents the dynamics of ________.

Which pair of terms most accurately describes life history traits for a stable population of wolves?

Which statements about K are correct? I.K varies among populations. II.K varies in space. III.K varies in time. IV.K is constant for any given species.

Which of the following examples would most accurately measure the dispersion of a population being studied?

In July 2008, the United States had a population of approximately 302,000,000 people. How many Americans were there in July 2009, if the estimated 2008 growth rate was 0.88%?

Analyzing ecological footprints reveals that

Often the growth cycle of one population has an effect on the cycle of another. As moose populations increase, for example, wolf populations also increase. Thus, if we are considering the logistic equation for the wolf population, $\frac { d N } { d t }$ = rN $\frac { ( K - N ) } { K }$ ,which of the factors accounts for the effect of the moose population?

During exponential growth, a population always

Which of the following is the best natural example of a uniform pattern of dispersion?

According to the logistic growth equation below, $\frac { d N } { d t }$ = rN $\frac { ( K - N ) } { K }$

In which of the following situations would you expect to find the largest number of r-selected individuals?

To measure the population of lake trout in a 250-hectare lake, 400 individual trout were netted and marked with a fin clip, then returned to the lake. The next week, the lake was netted again, and out of the 200 lake trout that were caught, 50 had fin clips. Using the mark-recapture estimate, the lake trout population size could be closest to which of the following?

Consider two old-growth forests: One is undisturbed while the other is being logged. In which region are species likely to experience exponential growth, and why?

Use the graph to answer the following question. In the figure, which of the following survivorship curves most applies to humans living in developed countries?

In 2008, the population of New Zealand was approximately 4,275,000 people. If the birth rate was 14 births for every 1,000 people, approximately how many births occurred in New Zealand in 2008?

Population ecologists follow the fate of same-age cohorts to

Use the figure to answer the following question. In the figure, imagine a different scenario where the death rate per capita was dependent upon (and positively correlated with)the density of the population, and the birth rate was instead density independent. As the density of the population increased, ________.

According to the logistic growth equation, $\frac { d N } { d t }$ = rN $\frac { ( K - N ) } { K }$