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: According to Darwin theory of evolution the struggle for existence is considered as major part for competition among living things.
Explanation:
Coexisting species that belong to the same genera compete for same kind of resources for their survival. Some phenotypic variations gives an survival advantage over others. The superior ones dominate the inferior ones and compete for resources. The one who receives the resources like mates, food, shelter, and others the chances of survival also increases considerably.
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open
The proprioceptors
The proprioceptors such as muscle
spindle and golgi tendon organ are sensors located in the limbs. The proprioceptors
give information about muscle length, muscle tension and joint angle which is coordinated
to provide information about the limb’s position in space.
