Overexploitation - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

ENWC 201 Final Study Guide 2024 Questions and Answers What is an animal's niche? - CORRECT ANSWER-An animals role or job in an ecosystem How many dimensions can a niche have? - CORRECT ANSWER-A niche can be simple and complex What is the Pleistocene overkill? - CORRECT ANSWER-The argument that humans were responsible for the late pleistocene extinction of mega fauna. What did Teddy do to earn his term in office being coined as the Golden Age in Conservation? - CORRECT ANSWER-In 190...

fishery correct answer: a system composed of 3 interacting components: the aquatic biota, the aquatic habitat and the human users of these renewable natural resources fisheries management correct answer: interdisciplinary manipulation of aquatic organisms, aquatic environments, and their human resources to produce sustained and ever increasing benefits for people provisioning ecosystem service correct answer: goods regulating ecosystem service correct answer: water purification, cli...

what is an animal's niche - ANSWER-it's role or job in the ecosystem how many dimensions can a niche have - ANSWER-it can have many dimensions can animals share a niche - ANSWER-no, one of them are going to out win the other specialist - ANSWER-animals with specific needs and a low range of tolerance generalist - ANSWER-animals with unspecific needs and a high range of tolerance logistic growth - ANSWER-when growth rate decreases as the population reaches carrying capacity what limiting...

ENWC 201 Final Exam - Questions with Verified Answers What is an animal's niche? How many dimensions can a niche have? Can animals share a niche? An animal's niche is the functional role of an organism considered in the environment in which it lives, its "job." A niche is multidimensional. No two organisms can occupy the same niche at the same time in the same place. What is a specialist vs a generalist? A specialist fits into their environment tightly and there is no room for dealing with...

What is extinction? - The loss or death of a species What is mass extinction? - A decline in biodiversity greater than the background extinction rate What is background extinction? - Background extinction occurs when certain populations are reduced to zero because of normal environment change, emerging disease, predation pressure, or competition with another species How are mass extinctions detected and how many have been detected? - They're detected geologically, and there have been 5...

NRES 409 Fishery Management and Ecosystem Exam Review Questions and Answers 2023/2024 Fishery - correct answer a system composed of 3 interacting components: the aquatic biota, the aquatic habitat and the human users of these renewable natural resources Fisheries management - correct answer interdisciplinary manipulation of aquatic organisms, aquatic environments, and their human resources to produce sustained and ever increasing benefits for people Provisioning ecosystem service - correc...

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 ...

What is TFR and how does it influence the predictions on future human population? - Total Fertility Rate: Average number of live births a woman has during her lifetime Shows population growth What are the 4 main human caused factors to the loss of biodiversity? - Habitat Destruction, Invasive Species, Pollution, Overexploitation What is Biomagnification? - Tendency of certain chemicals to accumulate or build up within food chains What is the other name for the global water cycle? - Hydro...

EEB 2100 UCONN FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+. Overexplotation - correct answer. overharvesting natural resources faster than their replacement is a main cause of biodiversity loss Overexploitation-Cod Fishing - correct answer. Atlantic Cod fishery is depleted by 1920's technological advances such as diesel engines that allow for larger boats Georges Bank - correct answer. Inundated, highly productive island where the Gulf Stream causes upwellings of...

NRES Environmental act and Ecophysiology Questions and Answers 2023/2024 Homestead Act - correct answer created to accelerate settlement in the west, you could buy land from the public domain Morril Land Grant Act - correct answer gave each state land per number of congress members, this land was given to the public for schools and parks Timber and Stone Act - correct answer sold land not suitable for farming for cheaper Forest Reserve Act - correct answer allowed president to remove f...