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1. Describe two examples of mutualistic interspecific interactions that we studied in the biodiversity section of the course. For each, explain what different organisms are participating in the interaction, and why you think it is a mutualist interaction.
2. Why do large islands usually have more species than smaller islands?
3. Imagine a food chain with grasses that are consumed by rabbits, that are in turn preyed upon by coyotes, which are hunted by humans.
a) Given this food chain, what would you predict would happen to the population densities of coyotes, rabbits, and grass if humans stopped hunting coyotes? Why would you predict this?
b) If owls, a second predator species, entered this community and started hunting rabbits, what would you predict would happen to the population size of coyotes? What type of interaction characterizes that between the coyotes and owls?