BSC 340 – Final questions with accurate answers
Ans✓✓✓ Paige's background
______ fire is used to create edge to benefit wildlife Ans✓✓✓
prescribed
"I want Y. If I do X, I have a good chance of getting Y"
I value ______ Ans✓✓✓ Y
• Flagship species Ans✓✓✓ symbol for conservation
• Indicator species Ans✓✓✓ reflect the fate of other attributes of an
ecosystem
↓population growth Ans✓✓✓ ↑density
> 0 (Exponential Growth Equation) Ans✓✓✓ population incr
2 models used to describe population growth Ans✓✓✓ exponential and
logistic
2 types of competition: Ans✓✓✓ intraspecific and interspecific
,4 kinds of harvest management Ans✓✓✓ commercial, recreational,
subsistence and illegal
A single large reserve may be better than several small reserves for the
following reasons EXCEPT
A Supports species with large home ranges
B Likely to contain many habitat types
C Likely to contain meta populations
D Allows for natural disturbance
E Resilient to disease Ans✓✓✓ E
a species is a kind of organism that is reproductively ____ from other
groups
A Connected
B Isolated Ans✓✓✓ B
A strength of structured decision making is that it first identifies
A. The relevant best available science
B. Decision options
C. Objectives Ans✓✓✓ C
ability of a given level of harvest to produce profits over a long period of
time Ans✓✓✓ economic viability
,ability of an ecosystem to cope with a given level of use indefinitely
Ans✓✓✓ sustainability
abiotic or biotic events that remove vegetation, affect flows of energy
and matter, and influences ecosystem structure and function (variable in
rate and intensity) Ans✓✓✓ disturbance
abundance of a species = Ans✓✓✓ population size (interchangeable
definition)
According to the ecosystem sustainability approach, which is the least
important focus of management?
A. Species
B. Ecosystem structure
C. Ecosystem function
D. Human productive capacity Ans✓✓✓ A
According to the flux of nature paradigm, ecosystems often are not near
or approaching equilibrium because
A. Disturbances are widespread and frequent
B. Succession often does not occur
, C. Population often are regulated by density-dependent processes
Ans✓✓✓ A
according to utilitarian logic, increase amount of limiting resources leads
to ______ population Ans✓✓✓ bigger
according to utilitarian logic, more habitats equates to ____ population
Ans✓✓✓ bigger
actual reproductive rate affected by _________ Ans✓✓✓ physiological
state (physical condition)
Adaptive management is especially useful when there is
A. Disagreement about how a natural system works
B. Disagreement about the importance of different management goals
C. Disagreement about which outcomes level is optional for a particular
management goal
D. B and C Ans✓✓✓ A
adaptive radiation describes
A process of a few immigrants evolving to fill niches
B species that are unique to a geographic area
C population on an island that is vulnerable to change events Ans✓✓✓
A
Ans✓✓✓ Paige's background
______ fire is used to create edge to benefit wildlife Ans✓✓✓
prescribed
"I want Y. If I do X, I have a good chance of getting Y"
I value ______ Ans✓✓✓ Y
• Flagship species Ans✓✓✓ symbol for conservation
• Indicator species Ans✓✓✓ reflect the fate of other attributes of an
ecosystem
↓population growth Ans✓✓✓ ↑density
> 0 (Exponential Growth Equation) Ans✓✓✓ population incr
2 models used to describe population growth Ans✓✓✓ exponential and
logistic
2 types of competition: Ans✓✓✓ intraspecific and interspecific
,4 kinds of harvest management Ans✓✓✓ commercial, recreational,
subsistence and illegal
A single large reserve may be better than several small reserves for the
following reasons EXCEPT
A Supports species with large home ranges
B Likely to contain many habitat types
C Likely to contain meta populations
D Allows for natural disturbance
E Resilient to disease Ans✓✓✓ E
a species is a kind of organism that is reproductively ____ from other
groups
A Connected
B Isolated Ans✓✓✓ B
A strength of structured decision making is that it first identifies
A. The relevant best available science
B. Decision options
C. Objectives Ans✓✓✓ C
ability of a given level of harvest to produce profits over a long period of
time Ans✓✓✓ economic viability
,ability of an ecosystem to cope with a given level of use indefinitely
Ans✓✓✓ sustainability
abiotic or biotic events that remove vegetation, affect flows of energy
and matter, and influences ecosystem structure and function (variable in
rate and intensity) Ans✓✓✓ disturbance
abundance of a species = Ans✓✓✓ population size (interchangeable
definition)
According to the ecosystem sustainability approach, which is the least
important focus of management?
A. Species
B. Ecosystem structure
C. Ecosystem function
D. Human productive capacity Ans✓✓✓ A
According to the flux of nature paradigm, ecosystems often are not near
or approaching equilibrium because
A. Disturbances are widespread and frequent
B. Succession often does not occur
, C. Population often are regulated by density-dependent processes
Ans✓✓✓ A
according to utilitarian logic, increase amount of limiting resources leads
to ______ population Ans✓✓✓ bigger
according to utilitarian logic, more habitats equates to ____ population
Ans✓✓✓ bigger
actual reproductive rate affected by _________ Ans✓✓✓ physiological
state (physical condition)
Adaptive management is especially useful when there is
A. Disagreement about how a natural system works
B. Disagreement about the importance of different management goals
C. Disagreement about which outcomes level is optional for a particular
management goal
D. B and C Ans✓✓✓ A
adaptive radiation describes
A process of a few immigrants evolving to fill niches
B species that are unique to a geographic area
C population on an island that is vulnerable to change events Ans✓✓✓
A
