Lecture 6

Question 1

Why are logistic, exponential, and geometric models not good for real world data

Question 2

What are negative allee effects?
a. How does the graph fluctuate
b. Example of meerkats

Question 3

What are life history strategies and its key components?

Question 4

What is the typical life history for plants and animals?

Question 5

Why do we have to consider age structure? How do scientists summarize this information?

Question 6

Why are women only depicted in life table data?

Question 7

What are age class intervals?

Question 8

Survivorship Schedules Slide 14 – what are the axis on a survivorship curve and what do the axis mean? what do we know about the curve? What is the adapted version of the axes?

Question 9

Fecundity schedules Slide 19 – what are the axes and what do they mean?
What is the trade off between fecundity and survivorship

Question 10

What is Rnot and how do you calculate? And what are the units?

Question 11

What is the formula for generation time and what does it mean?

Question 12

What are the different units between rnot, lambda, and little r? how are they related mathematically?

Question 13

Evolution by natural selection favors which age of reproduction and fecundity? Why?

Question 14

What is iteroparity, semelparity and monocarpic? How do these differ in reproduction by the seasons of growth? What are perennial plants?

Question 15

When does natural selection favour semelparity and monocarpic?

Question 16

Relationship between salmon and semelparity?

Question 17

Relationship between bamboo and monocarpic? What is the advantage of synchrony?

Question 18

K strategy vs r strategy?

Question 19

Graph between reproductive value (vx) and x