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Predation and Herbivory
1. Explain how the 10-year, Hare population cycles are linked to predatory activity and food quality?
2. Why are invasive predator species able to have a more significant effect on local prey populations than native predator species?
3. How was Carl Huffaker able to get his populations of mites to cycles? How is this related to the Lotka-Volterra models?
4. Compare the different functional response curves. How type 1, type 2 and type 3 functional response are curves similar and different?
5. How are the costs of structural and chemical defenses related to the Principle of Allocation? How do Batesian Mimics maximize energy while increasing survival ability?
Chapter: Parasitism and Infectious Disease
1. Can you find examples of parasites or diseases that may change human behaviors?
2. What are two examples of human endoparasites and two examples of human ectoparasites?
3. Explain how bat species can at as reservoir species of parasites and or infectious disease
4. How is the Reproductive rate of infection (Ro) related to mitigation efforts to stop the spread of Corona virus in 2020 and 2021?
5. Have parasites coevolved with hosts? Explain.
Chapter: Competition
1. Why are older populations of (invasive) garlic mustard less toxic and less competitive to native species than more recent populations of garlic mustard? Think of coevolution and or principle of allocation.
2. How is Liebig's Law of the minimum similar and different from the competitive exclusion principle?
3. Thinking of Liebig's Law of the minimum and compounding effect, why do common fertilizers supply a mixture of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium rather than just one nutrient?
4. How is competition and competitive exclusion related to the realized niche and fundamental niche?
5. Which type of competition is going to have a negative impact on fitness for both species (exploitative or interference)? Explain reasoning.
Chapter: Mutualism
1. Why is the presence of mycorrhizal fungi important for plant biodiversity in an ecosystem?
2. Select an example of an animal with plant mutual relationship and explain what each species is providing in the relationship.
3. How does seed dispersal and pollination mutual relationships increase ecosystem biodiversity?
4. Explain the connection between mutual relationships and parasitic relationships. How can a mutual become a parasite?