Conservation Biology Midterm 2 Exam Questions With Verified Answers

Conservation Biology Midterm 2 Exam Questions With Verified Answers what are the three parameters for biomagnification - answereach animal needs to be bigger than the previous one each animal needs to live longer than the previous one each animal needs to eat more than the previous one Island Rule (Foster's Rule) - answerbig mammals evolve to be smaller on islands and small mammals evolve to be larger demographic catastrophe - answera high mortality rate in a particular portion of the population relictual species - answerone that has survived in a given place while disappearing elsewhere exploitation - answerthe misuse/abuse of something over-exploitation - answerthe DETRIMENTAL misuse/abuse of something what are the three examples of overexploiting wildlife - answerexcessive hunting/fishing/harvestin trade of wildlife and parts (legal/illegal) tourism (ecotourism) res communis - answerwildlife held in trust by an individual for "the people" res publica - answerwildlife held in trust for "the people" by the state and "the people" help decide the laws that apply to wildlife res nullius - answerwildlife belong to no one person but become property of anyone or used by anyone through occupatio (applies to oceans) poaching - answerany illegal hunting activity with conscious intent adaptive radiation - answerthe diversification of species originating from a common ancestor to fill a wide variety of ecological niches archipelago speciation - answerdiscrete island populations diverge genetically over time until each island has its own endemic species that is still closely related to all the others founder's principle - answerrare characteristics found in a small founding group may not be represented in a new population that comes from that founder group impoverishment - answer"islands harbor fewer species than does an equal area of mainland habitat" also explained by the species area curve disharmony - answerdiscrepancy of species representation between one area and another, particularly between an island and a mainland what is an example of disharmony - answerMadagascar has all the lemur species of the world while Africa has none what is the bushmeat or "wild meat" crisis - answerhunting of protected or endangered terrestrial wildlife for food what does CIFOR stand for - answercenter for international forestry research what were the two separate shifts in the bushmeat trends - answershift from large mammals to rodents and reptiles shifted from diurnal to nocturnal species why did the shift in bushmeat happen - answerbecause of the overexploitation of the large mammals and diurnal species what is top down ecotourism - answerowners/operators get the vast majority benefits of ecotourism per person, the local people get almost nothing what is bottom up ecotourism - answerowners/operators get proportionally less per person, they get the majority of the benefits from ecotourism what is positive performance payment - answerassociated with the performance of animals because as long as you are paid and keeping the animals around, you continue to get money ecotourism - answerresponsible travel to natural areas which conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local people THIS IS WHAT IT SHOULD BE (TARSIER) deterministic factors - answerthose involving straightforward cause and effect relationships that can be predicted and controlled