Ecology Answers

What type of relationship do food webs and food chains depict?

Relevance of neutral theory and functional niche complementarity to community restoration

What I Know About Invasive Species ? What I Want To Know About Invasive Species ?

If the corn has 25,500 kCal of energy available, how much energy is available for the python?

Would photosynthetic algae be able to provide astronauts in space with oxygen and remove co2

1. A warthog weighs 100 lbs. If a cheetah eats the warthog, approximately how many pounds will be used for energy by the cheetah?

Carbon gets exchanged between lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the
Earth’. Explain with the help of a well labeled diagram.

The larvae form of this mosquito lives exclusively in old tires, and old tires are identical across all habitats. If water dries before larvae transition to adulthood, they die. Rain (which fills the tires with water) is more frequent in Florida than in Southern Maine. How do you expect mosquitoes to differ in respect to variation in size and age at metamorphosis?

For a trait like body size, why is plasticity adaptive? Why do alleles that allow for plasticity increase in populations via natural selection? Can I get an example?

Identify one life history trade off. Now briefly describe an experiment/study to test the hypothesis that the optimal solution to this trade off differs as a function in environmental variation (it is not the same in all habitats and can be predicted) identify what prediction you are testing , and describe how your experiment/study in detail