Exam 9: Population Distribution and Abundance

Research by Hubble and Johnson showed that aggressive social interactions among stingless bees in the tropical dry forests of Costa Rica can produce and enforce a clumped distribution.

Often an organism with a broad habitat tolerance is called a generalist.

Research on North American bird populations have indicated that populations are ________, distributed on a ________ scale.

Which of the following word pairs are mismatched?

The rarest animal is the ________ and the rarest plant is the ________.

Which of the following are characteristics of a population?

Peters and Wassenberg (1983) showed that the population density of terrestrial mammals, aquatic invertebrates, and birds decrease with increased body size. However, compared to terrestrial mammals of similar body size, the population density aquatic invertebrates tend to be ________.

Caughley found the distributions of the three largest kangaroo species in Australia are determined by

Often small scale distribution patterns gathered from mountain gradients can be used to draw conclusions about large scale distribution patterns.

Donald Phillips and James MacMahon showed that the distribution pattern of creosote bush, Larrea tridentata, changes in the following sequence as they grow

A group of individuals of a single species inhabiting a specific area is called a ________.