Explain logistic growth, carrying capacity, limiting factors,and other fundamental concepts in population ecology

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Q: You are an ecologist studying movement behavior of a bird population. You attach radio-transmitters…

A: In a population with limited amount of resources and the population shoots over its carrying…

Q: In a field experiment an ecologist traps 30 mice. She marks all 30 mice and releases them back into…

A: Introduction The population of a single area, whether it is a city or town, region, country,…

Q: Populations of most organisms follow an exponential model of population growth. Group of answer…

A: Question -  Populations of most organisms follow an exponential model of population growth. Group of…

Q: Compare exponential J-curve growth (line A) to logistic S-curve growth (line B). Explain the…

A: In the graph two curves are represented one is J shaped and the other one is S shaped. Both the…

Q: Which of the following is a density-independent factor on population growth? weather event food…

A: A density-independent factor on population growth is a factor that affects population size…

Q: . -0.14, λ - 0.87, RO-0.5 - 3.0, λ-0.22, RO-0.5 - 0.22, λ - 1.25, RO-3.0 - 0.22, λ-0.14, RO= 0.5

A: Intrinsic rate of population is represented by letter r. This rate can be understood as the number…

Q: How do population growth impact ecosystems and animal populations and diversity generally (with…

A: Population growth impact on ecosystems : • Population growth and increasing resource consumption…

Q: The growth of a population of natural resources (such as hardwood trees) over time is illustrated by…

A: Commercial harvesting of plants and animals (as in fishing) is timed in such a way that the maximum…

Q: Describe how age-structure diagrams and survivorship curves are used to predict future growth.

A: growth is increase in number.

Q: In the logistic growth equation the highest instantaneous population growth rate (dN/dt) is reached

A: In logistic population growth the growth curve is sigmoid in shape.   The logistic growth model…

Q: What is inherent capacity of a population to increase under optimal conditions?

A: All the organisms interact with each other and with the environment to survive. The branch of…

Q: Compare and contrast Exponential Growth and Logistic Growth Logistic Growth both Exponential Growth

A: A group of organisms of the same species that live in habitat makes a population.

Q: List and describe each of the five major attributes of populations that help ecologists predict…

A: Introduction A population is defined as a group of individuals of the same species living and…

Q: The carrying capacity (K) is the maximum population size that can be supported or sustained by a…

A: Ans- Carrying capacity of an environment is defined as the maximum population size supported or…

Q: During what phase of the growth curves in each diagram is the population just beginning to colonize…

A: The population is the collection of all the interacting individuals of a single species that are…

Q: O Grow quickly when the population is small and then grow more slowly as the carry capacity is…

A: Density dependent population growth is dependent on the population size of the population and…

Q: What ecological approach is used in identifying a pattern of change in a community or environment?

A: Introduction   Every living being and nonliving being are affected by each others presence…

Q: Given the following figure of logistic growth, Logistic Growth E A B Time when the population…

A: The population size increases according to its growth. The population growth may be of two types: 1.…

Q: When an organisms exhibits ___________ growth its _________ is constant. determinate,…

A: Determinate growth: Determinate growth is the growth that stops once a genetically predetermines…

Q: You want to estimate the population size of pink salmon in the upper pitt river and use a…

A: The mark-recapture method is a sampling technique for estimating population size and density by…

Q: In studying species relationship, what kind of tool should use to understand between population…

A: The tools which are used to study the population are known as demographic parameters. There use many…

Q: Distinguish between tolerance range and optimal range.

A: According to the question, we have to distinguish between tolerance range and optimal range. This…

Q: Vicuña are ungulate herbivores related to llamas that occupy high mountain grasslands in the Andes.…

A: Analyzing the effects of rainfall is necessary to comprehend the elements controlling the expansion…

Q: Which of the following is the term for the upward growth of a population?   Select one: A.…

A: Biotic potential can be described as the unrestricted growth of populations resulting in the maximum…

Q: Which of the following would have the largest capture efficiency in the Lotka-Volterra model of…

A: The Lotka–Volterra equations, also known as the predator–prey equations, are a pair of first-order…

Q: The carrying capacity refers to the Group of answer choices:  maximum sustainable population size…

A: • Carrying capacity refers to the number of individuals…

Q: What implications (if any) for human population control might we draw from our knowledge of basic…

A: Introduction:Population ecology is the branch of ecology that helps in understanding the structure…

Q: (Number marked × total number recaptured)# recaptured with mark/Number marked × total number…

A: Given: The first sample-  Initially captured and tagged = 10 rabbits The Second sample - Recaptured…

Q: Contrast density-dependent versus density-independent population processes.

A: Understanding population dynamics and the factors that influence them is crucial for studying…

Q: The population described in this table is: O A) growing O B) declining O C) stable

A: The population growth here is

Communities and Ecosystems

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