Deck F Flashcards
What type of competition is characterised by one species directly attacking another?
Interference competition
What is the world’s smallest tortoise?
Speckled padloer
Which of these Australian taxa did not have a species named after collector, John Gilbert?
A monotreme
A disturbance or disruption, including management actions, which can force an ecosystem into another state is known as a
Perturbation
The point where even small changes in environmental conditions will lead to large changes in system state variables is the
Threshold
The existence of different stable states under the same variables or parameters is known a
Hysteresis
Who coined the term ‘permaculture’ in 1978?
W. Mollison & D. Holmgren
Several threatening processes combining to hasten the decline of a population toward extinction is know as
An extinction vortex
Which of these is not a synonym for reinforcement in the latest IUCN Reintroduction Specialist Group Guidelines?
Flooding
What is a titi?
Callicebus monkey
What is the difference between occupancy estimates and naïve occupancy?
Naïve occupancy ignores imperfect detectability
The number of observations of birds per minute of survey is an example of a
Index
The last specimen of which electric-blue backed Coua delalandei was collected in 1834 from the wet forests of north-eastern Madagascar?
Delalande’s coucal
Lichens are an example of
Conjunctive symbiosis
The gradual replacement of one plant community by another is
Succession
What do Chester Zoo claim is the biggest threat to orangutans?
Palm olive production
Sites that soak up carbon are known as
Carbon sinks
A tree that extends beyond the canopy of a rainforest is an
Emergent
What is the annual point at which the Earth is closest to the Sun?
Perihelion
A phenomenon or process that produces results that can not be predicted with certainty is
Random
The anchor or ‘foot’ that is used by species (often algae) to stick to a surface is a
Holdfast
Africa supports what percentage of the world’s bird populations?
24% (2313 species from 111 families)
The Nagoya Protocol ensures the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from what?
Genetic resources
A group of organisms that that fill similar ecological roles, such as Africa’s large predators, is a
Guild
The evolution of many new species from relative few ancestor species is known as what?
Adaptive radiation
The total number of species on Earth ranges from what?
5-30 million
Plants that are pollinated by the wind are
Anemophilous
A service humans obtain from the environment is an
Ecosystem service
The last specimen of which electric-blue backed Coua delalandei was collected in 1834 from the wet forests of north-eastern Madagascar?
Dalalande’s coucal
The international treaty governing the movements of living modified organisms arising from biotechnology that was adopted on 29th of January 2000 is the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
The evolution of characteristics that allow sharing of resources of using them in ways that avoid compeition is
Resource partitioning
The conversion of sunlight and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose is
Photosynthesis
The shrinkage of testes in males by more than 90% outside the breeding season and the possession of one ovary, are adaptations to what?
Flight
The light emitted by fireflies is an example of
Bioluminescence
A group of organisms that includes their most recent common ancestor and all their descendents is a
Clade
