Loose Leaf For Integrated Principles Of Zoology
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ISBN: 9781260411140
Author: Cleveland P Hickman Jr. Emeritus, Susan L. Keen, David J Eisenhour Professor PhD, Allan Larson, Helen I'Anson Associate Professor of Biology
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To explain: The method by which resource partitioning involving ecological character displacement can ease competition between coexisting species.
Introduction: Resource partitioning is based on the differences in organismal morphology or behavior towards the exploitation of a resource.
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Ch. 38 - The term ecology is derived from the Greek meaning...Ch. 38 - Prob. 2RQCh. 38 - Prob. 3RQCh. 38 - Define the niche concept. How does the realized...Ch. 38 - Populations of independently living (unitary)...Ch. 38 - Prob. 6RQCh. 38 - Contrast exponential and logistic (= sigmoid)...Ch. 38 - Growth of a population can be hindered by either...Ch. 38 - Herbivory is beneficial for the animal (+) but...Ch. 38 - Prob. 10RQ
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