Quid d Flashcards
Which enormous, but excentric 19th Century banking scion amassed the greatest natural history collection in private hands, but sold it to a blackmailer to keep news of their affair from his mother?
Lord Walter Rothschild
What Guadalupe raptor was persecuted by sheep graziers and was last collected on 1st December 1900 by collector Rollo Beck when he shot 9 of the 11 he observed?
Guadalupe caracara (Polyborus lutosus)
A biotic community and its surroundings including the biotic and abiotic parts is knows as
An ecosystem
The energy molecule that powers organisms by fueling cell reactions is
ATP
What is the minimum number of bearings required to triangulate to a radio collared animal?
3
Name two species first collected by French missionary Pere Armand David.
Panda and Pere David’s deer
What island supports the world’s last 250 pink pigeons and 350 kestrels?
Mauritius
What is the world’s largest land gastropod?
African giant snail
Who introduced the term ‘ecosystem’ to ecological parlance in 1935?
Sir Arthur G Tansley
What group of birds did the Jamaican least-pauraque Siphonorhis americanus belong to? It was distinguishable by its strange tubular nostrils around 2mm long, but no natural history information was collected before its extinction in 1859, other than it being nocturnal.
Nightjars
A small area used for ecological study, often a 1 x 1 m square, is a
Quadrat
What is the scientific name for the Harpy eagle?
Harpia harpyja
The jaws of mammals are joined by which bones?
Squarmosal and Dentary
The hard, keratin-filled outer layer of a tetrapods claw is the
Unguis
What does it mean for a result to be statistically signicant?
The result is too large to be consistent with chance variability
The type of genetic drift in which genes from founder individuals show up more consistently in their offspring than other combinations is known as
The founder effect
The concentration of pollutants in the body tissue of generally top-order species is known as what?
Bioaccumilation
The first land plants appeared during the
Silurian
What lake has the greatest diversity of freshwater fish in the world?
Lake Malawi
An explanation of some aspect of the natural world that has been substantiated via repeated experiments or testing is
A law
What three species were introduced to the Hawaiian islands during Captain Cook’s third and fateful voyage that are likely to have contributed to the extinction of the Hawaiian spotted rail Pennula sandwichensis?
Mongoose, rat, cat
Nutrient cycling is a what type of ecosystem service?
Supporting
The accidental harvest of one organism instead of another, like dolphins caught in tuna nets, is
Bycatch
The conservation of components of biodiversity outside their natural habitats is
Ex-situ conservation
The total number of species within a community or defined area is referred to as
Species richness
Of the 5-30 million species estimated to live on Earth, how many have been formally described?
1.7-2 billion
What percentage of pine nuts can a Clarke’s nutcracker relocate 6 months after burying them?
0.8
Which if these is not a synonym for assisted colonisation according to the latest IUCN Reintroduction Specialist Group Guidelines?
Indroduction
Ecological succession that is driven by pioneer species that prepare the way for later species on and into the climax defines the
Facilitation model of succession
Interactions between species that impact how both evolve, for example bees and plants needing pollination, are known as
Coevolution
