Chapter 55 & 56:
Population/Behavioral Ecology
Supplemental Instruction
IowaStateUniversity / Leader: / Adam
Course: / Biology 211
Instructor: / Dr. Holscher
Date:
  1. Foraging Behavior:
  1. When an animal maximizes its energy intake to energy expenditure ratio this is called ______.
  1. Animals tend to optimize ______size according to cost and benefits.
  1. Communication:
  2. Describe what a pheromone is…
  1. Describe what tactile communication is…
  1. What is the name of the behavior when an animal does an action that benefits other at a cost to itself? Ex: honey bee stinging to protect its colony yet dies.
  1. Coefficient of Relatedness describes what?
  1. What is the coefficient relatedness between relatives?
  2. What is the coefficient of relatedness between parent and offspring?
  3. What is the coefficient if relatedness between grandparent and grandchild?
  1. Hamilton’s Rule
  2. According to this rule natural selection favors an altruistic act when….

rBC

r: B: C:

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  1. The study of birth rates, death rates, age distribution, and the sizes of populations is known as ______.
  2. List the 4 characteristics of a population:
  3. Density is the number of ______per ______
  1. Density is not static, there is additions and deletions
  2. List what cause Additions:
  3. List what cause Deletion:
  1. Dispersion is the pattern of ______among individuals within the ______of the ______.
  1. There are 3 types of dispersion, name them in order of most common to least common.

Question: Adam went out one weekend and recorded 134 squirrels per square mile in one woodland and 99 squirrels per square mile in another in a different town. What was Adam comparing, dispersion or density?

  1. Reproduction:
  2. Reproduce only once then die
  3. Reproduce repeatedly through life
  1. A table that is an age-specific summary of the survival pattern of a population, and lists items such as age, observed number of organisms alive each year, and life expectancy is known as a ______.
  2. A ______is a group of individuals of the same age.
  3. Population Growth:
  4. N: K:
  5. Exponential population growth results in a ______curve.
  6. Logistic population growth results in an ______curve
  7. During ______a population always grows at is maximum per capita rate.
  8. T or F: exponential growth can be sustained
  9. Carrying Capacity is….
  1. When N equals K…
  1. Density
  2. Density-dependent factors are those mortality factors that______with the ______of the population.
  3. Examples of these are…
  4. ______are those mortality factors that aren’t affected by population size/density.
  5. Examples of these are…
  6. Describe r-selected species and k-selected species…
  1. The unit of measurement for an ecological footprint is….
  1. What is the current ecological footprint for a person in the U.S ?