BISC302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Introduced Species, Infant Mortality, European Herring Gull
20 Oct 2016
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Squirrels collect corn kernels and plant them all over my backyard so that in summer i have cornstalks sprouting allover the place. What dispersion pattern is this most likely to be? random. These otters are trap- happy (larger denominator in the equation) In doing your honors research on sea turtles you find that females will lay upt to 100 eggs in the nest and then leave. Most of these eggs and nestlings will be consumed by predators; however tose who survive to adulthood can look forward to decades of reproductive life ahead. You also find that your population has r0 = 2. 47. In a life table for the gull larus argentatus the survivorship value l4 = This population is most likely growing in size. For a cohort of 924 individuals that were born, 440 will be alive at the start of age class x=4. Populations vary in space and time (sometimes dramatically)
