Study Guide for Campbell Biology
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780134443775
Author: Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Jane B. Reece, Martha R. Taylor, Michael A. Pollock
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 54, Problem 18TYK
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Introduction: A species-area curve is used for explaining the correlation between the geographic size of a particular community and the total number of species within that specific community.
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Ninety-nine percent of all the species that ever existed have gone extinct,
a. serving as evidence that current extinction rates are not higher than normal.
b. but most of these losses have occurred in the last 400 years.
c. which argues that the world just had too many species.
d. None of the choices is correct.
A large tropical island is found near the mainland. Based on the predictions of the MacArthur and Wilson equilibrium model of island biogeography this island will have…
a.
low immigration rates and low extinction rates
b.
high immigration rates and high extinction rates
c.
low immigration rates and high extinction rates
d.
high immigration rates and low extinction rates
Suppose that a type of tree tends to speciate over 10 million years and a species of fly tends to speciate over 1 million years. In the event of a mass extinction, which of the following predictions would LIKELY be true?
A.
It is impossible to determine how many niches or species the trees and flies would lead to over time.
B.
The trees would fill more niches and create more species than the flies.
C.
The flies would fill more niches and create more species than the trees.
D.
They would both lead to the same number of species.
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Study Guide for Campbell Biology
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