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NRES 348 Midterm Exam Questions And
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Wildlife and Fisheries - Answer✔Species or systems that involve consumptive and non-
consumptive use by humans
Wildlife - Answer✔All free living animals
Fisheries - Answer✔system that includes the fish, habitat and human users
Fish:single species
Fishes: multiple species
Management - Answer✔Manipulation of pop. or habits to achieve specific goals or endpoint
Manipulative management - Answer✔Acting on a pop., changing numbers by direct means or
influencing numbers by indirect means
ex. altering food supply, habitat
Custodial management - Answer✔Preventative or protective, minimize external influence on
pop. and habitat
Life-history - Answer✔Traits that describe the life cycle of an organism
ex. birth, death, reproduction., # of offspring
Conservation - Answer✔sustainable management and use of natural resources
Preservation - Answer✔leaving natural systems or resources as they are
basic unit of management - Answer✔the population, NOT the individual
Dynamic management - Answer✔art of making land or aquatic habitat produce a sustained
harvest of wildlife or fish
Ecosystem management goals - Answer✔- new more holistic/comprehensive approach to
conservation of biodiversity
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- keep everyone on the same page
- designed to integrate ecology, socioeconomic and institutional perspective
Adaptive resources management - Answer✔flexible to unanticipated and complex outcomes,
continual reassessment and innovation
Adaptive management - Answer✔Type of natural resources management that implies making
decisions as part of an ongoing process
Communities - Answer✔Interacting assemblage of living organisms in an area; often divided by
plant and animal
origin of community ecology - Answer✔Stephen Forbes (1844-1930)
Community ecology - Answer✔oldest discipline in ecology, importance of interspecific
interactions in descriptive natural history
intraspecific competition - Answer✔competition between members of the same species
interspecific competition - Answer✔competition between members of different species
Indirect Competition - Answer✔consumption of a shared resource
Direct Competition - Answer✔interference or contest competition; organisms prevent access or
harm one another while seeking a resource
Population - Answer✔group of org. of the same species that occupy a space, close enough to
find and reproduce
Importance of population - Answer✔- how much can be harvested
- env. changes affect pop.
- predict when and why pop. goes extinct/endangered
- how pop affect eachother
- env. quality indicator
Population ecology issues - Answer✔- small/declining pop.
- restoration/ reintroduction
- wildlife epidemiology
- invasive species
- sustainable yield
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Exponential growth - Answer✔dN/dT=rN
dN: Change in #
dT: change in time
r: exp. growth rate or pop. determined by # of young and survival rate
N: pop. size @ any moment
Exponential growth: non-overlapping generations - Answer✔N=Ro^+ No
N= pop. size @ end of reproduction
Ro: net replacement rate/generation
+: #of generations
semelparity - Answer✔occurrence of a single act of reproduction during an organisms lifetime
iteroparity - Answer✔repeated production of offspring at intervals throughout organisms
lifetime
Logistic growth - Answer✔dN/dT=rN(1-N/K)
dN: change in #
dT: change in time
r: exports growth rate of pop.
N: pop.size @ any given moment
K: carrying capacity
Sigmoidal growth pattern - Answer✔
K: carrying capacity - Answer✔# of individuals that the resources of a habitat can sustain
Function of: food, water, cover, predators...
Population dynamics - Answer✔Study of changes in the number and composition of individuals
in a population and the factors that influence those changes
4 essential quantities of pop. dynamics - Answer✔B: Births +
D: Deaths -
I: Immigrants +
E: Emigrants -
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NRES 348 Midterm Exam Questions And
Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
Wildlife and Fisheries - Answer✔Species or systems that involve consumptive and non-
consumptive use by humans
Wildlife - Answer✔All free living animals
Fisheries - Answer✔system that includes the fish, habitat and human users
Fish:single species
Fishes: multiple species
Management - Answer✔Manipulation of pop. or habits to achieve specific goals or endpoint
Manipulative management - Answer✔Acting on a pop., changing numbers by direct means or
influencing numbers by indirect means
ex. altering food supply, habitat
Custodial management - Answer✔Preventative or protective, minimize external influence on
pop. and habitat
Life-history - Answer✔Traits that describe the life cycle of an organism
ex. birth, death, reproduction., # of offspring
Conservation - Answer✔sustainable management and use of natural resources
Preservation - Answer✔leaving natural systems or resources as they are
basic unit of management - Answer✔the population, NOT the individual
Dynamic management - Answer✔art of making land or aquatic habitat produce a sustained
harvest of wildlife or fish
Ecosystem management goals - Answer✔- new more holistic/comprehensive approach to
conservation of biodiversity
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- keep everyone on the same page
- designed to integrate ecology, socioeconomic and institutional perspective
Adaptive resources management - Answer✔flexible to unanticipated and complex outcomes,
continual reassessment and innovation
Adaptive management - Answer✔Type of natural resources management that implies making
decisions as part of an ongoing process
Communities - Answer✔Interacting assemblage of living organisms in an area; often divided by
plant and animal
origin of community ecology - Answer✔Stephen Forbes (1844-1930)
Community ecology - Answer✔oldest discipline in ecology, importance of interspecific
interactions in descriptive natural history
intraspecific competition - Answer✔competition between members of the same species
interspecific competition - Answer✔competition between members of different species
Indirect Competition - Answer✔consumption of a shared resource
Direct Competition - Answer✔interference or contest competition; organisms prevent access or
harm one another while seeking a resource
Population - Answer✔group of org. of the same species that occupy a space, close enough to
find and reproduce
Importance of population - Answer✔- how much can be harvested
- env. changes affect pop.
- predict when and why pop. goes extinct/endangered
- how pop affect eachother
- env. quality indicator
Population ecology issues - Answer✔- small/declining pop.
- restoration/ reintroduction
- wildlife epidemiology
- invasive species
- sustainable yield
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Exponential growth - Answer✔dN/dT=rN
dN: Change in #
dT: change in time
r: exp. growth rate or pop. determined by # of young and survival rate
N: pop. size @ any moment
Exponential growth: non-overlapping generations - Answer✔N=Ro^+ No
N= pop. size @ end of reproduction
Ro: net replacement rate/generation
+: #of generations
semelparity - Answer✔occurrence of a single act of reproduction during an organisms lifetime
iteroparity - Answer✔repeated production of offspring at intervals throughout organisms
lifetime
Logistic growth - Answer✔dN/dT=rN(1-N/K)
dN: change in #
dT: change in time
r: exports growth rate of pop.
N: pop.size @ any given moment
K: carrying capacity
Sigmoidal growth pattern - Answer✔
K: carrying capacity - Answer✔# of individuals that the resources of a habitat can sustain
Function of: food, water, cover, predators...
Population dynamics - Answer✔Study of changes in the number and composition of individuals
in a population and the factors that influence those changes
4 essential quantities of pop. dynamics - Answer✔B: Births +
D: Deaths -
I: Immigrants +
E: Emigrants -
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