Trent University BIOL 2260 Midterm – Questions
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commensalism
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1 ecology 2 assumptions of mark-recapture
3 positive/neutral interaction 4 demography
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ecology scientific study between organisms and environment
features of science ability to make predictions, uncertainty, probabilistic
conclusions, skepticism, falsifiable hypotheses
karl popper who said: testing a hypothesis means attempting to
falsify that hypothesis
, populationist, typological the ________ thinking of Darwin replaced the _______
thinking of Aristotle
demography study of rates of birth & death, age & sex structure
and distribution
population a group of potentially interbreeding individuals
inhabiting a specific area
arbitrary or natural spatial bounds can be...
density the number of individuals per unit area; ecological or
crude
the area is known & organisms are quadratic sample requirements
immobile
lincoln-peterson index N=M*n/m
accuracy how close an estimate is to the true value
precision how close repeated estimates are to each other
assumptions of mark-recapture equal probability of captured, emigrate and die at
same rate, marking does not effect probability of
recapture, no immigration or reproduction between
marking and resighting, and no marks are lost
confidence interval we use ___________ to determine the precision of mark-
recapture
random, clumped, regular 3 forms of distribution
birth, death, immigration and the 4 process that affect population size
emigration
open population expression N(t-1)=N(t)+B+I-D-E
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commensalism
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1 ecology 2 assumptions of mark-recapture
3 positive/neutral interaction 4 demography
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Terms in this set (58)
ecology scientific study between organisms and environment
features of science ability to make predictions, uncertainty, probabilistic
conclusions, skepticism, falsifiable hypotheses
karl popper who said: testing a hypothesis means attempting to
falsify that hypothesis
, populationist, typological the ________ thinking of Darwin replaced the _______
thinking of Aristotle
demography study of rates of birth & death, age & sex structure
and distribution
population a group of potentially interbreeding individuals
inhabiting a specific area
arbitrary or natural spatial bounds can be...
density the number of individuals per unit area; ecological or
crude
the area is known & organisms are quadratic sample requirements
immobile
lincoln-peterson index N=M*n/m
accuracy how close an estimate is to the true value
precision how close repeated estimates are to each other
assumptions of mark-recapture equal probability of captured, emigrate and die at
same rate, marking does not effect probability of
recapture, no immigration or reproduction between
marking and resighting, and no marks are lost
confidence interval we use ___________ to determine the precision of mark-
recapture
random, clumped, regular 3 forms of distribution
birth, death, immigration and the 4 process that affect population size
emigration
open population expression N(t-1)=N(t)+B+I-D-E
