An ecologist studying plants in the desert performed the following experiment. She staked out two identical plots, which included a few sagebrush plants and numerous small, annual wildflowers. She found the same five wildflower species in roughly equal numbers on both plots. She then enclosed one of the plots with a fence to keep out kangaroo rats, the most common grain-eaters of the area. After two years, to her surprise, four of the wildflower species were no longer present in the fenced plot, but one species had increased dramatically. The control plot had not changed. Using the principles of ecology, propose a hypothesis to explain her results.
Explanation:
- This example highlights the impact of plant predation on species selection. In the fenced off plot animal predation is not a factor on plant selection.
- In this case plants will compete for resources only with each other and in this case one plant had a selective advantage over the other 3 species of plants. In the plot exposed to animal predation the ratio of the four species is equal.
- This is likely do to an increased preference of animals for the plant species that dominates in the fenced off plot and/or anti-animal predation tactics by the other three species.
a.Hypothesis: kangaroo rats are keystone species
-Reintroduce kangaroo rats (and the other locally extinct species)
-Should observe equilibrium re-established
b.Hypothesis: kangaroo rats exert top-down control on community
-Reintroduce kangaroo rats (and other locally extinct species)
-Increase kangaroo rat population in other plot
-Decrease (but don't eliminate) kangaroo rat population in other plot
c.Hypothesis: Locally extinct species inferiorly competed with the extant species of plant
-Remove surviving species from other plot (and remove kangaroo rat population)
Answer:
<em>The tactic which will be of no help will be A) Increase your demand for green products and services to reduce your carbon footprint.</em>
Explanation:
Increasing demand for green products will require the cutting down of trees for meeting up the needs. Hence, lesser the trees, more will be the carbon dioxide as trees tend to take up carbon dioxide and use it in the process of photosynthesis.
Also, by using green products, our carbon footprint will not be reduced because the amount of carbon dioxide we release will remain the same. Hence, option A is the correct option.
Answer:
The correct answer is - (3) natural communities replacing each other in an orderly sequence
Explanation:
In this diagram, there is ecological succession occurred, the process of the new natural community over the older natural community in an orderly sequences.
In this case, there are change from an aquatic ecosystem to new land ecosystem by changing various biotc and abiotic factors. The ecosystem go through various changes and physical changes.
Answer:
If an element is neutral, then it has the same amount of protons and electrons. So the element will have 11 electrons.
Explanation:
Cellular respiration allows for animal cells to convert chemical energy from glucose into a usable form (ATP) without this process, animals would not be able to produce any energy for movement, transport, etc...