Exam 38: Community Ecology and Population Ecology

After reading the paragraph below, answer the question that follows. You are a developer establishing an enclave of new homes in Jasper National Park, Alberta. You bulldoze approximately 100 acres, removing most of the native trees and shrubbery. You then lay down roads and build about 500 homes that will house as many as 2000 people. The local park scientists, who have been tagging and studying many animal populations in the area for a number of years, notice sudden declines in numbers. -What is the type of interspecies interaction at play here?

The process where one species outcompetes and eliminates another species from it's niche is called

The size and frequency of disturbance on a community's biodiversity is called

After reading the paragraph below, answer the question(s) that follow(s). You're a member of an influential African family that's been displaced from your home by civil war. You're trying to select a new country in which to settle to gain better economic opportunities. You know that Nigeria is a large country with rich natural resources and are considering it for your new home. You've learned some basic principles of population growth and did some research on the Internet. Among the data you found was the following diagram of the current age structure of the country. -What key data would be important in allowing you to more confidently assess the future population of Nigeria?

Which of the following statements about lemmings is false?

Your ecological footprint is

Harvesting crops without damaging or overusing the resource is an example of

Smaller localized areas of weather patterns are called