Quiz c Flashcards
A model with the lowest Akaike’s Information Criterion score has
Similar levels of support to other models with AIC scores less than 2
In the 1930s, red foxes arrived in the south-west of Australia and were reported to kill more prey than they need to satiate their dietary requirements. What is this behaviour known as?
Surplus killing
Which of these species travels frequently by brachiation?
Gibbon
Who is Przewalski’s horse Equus ferus named after?
Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839-1888)
How many pairs of chromosomes does the average human possess in their body cells?
23
How many bison (Bison bison) are estimated to have roamed North America in the 19th Century?
60 million
Where are the world’s tallest elephants found - standing up to 4.21 m?
Damaraland, Namibia
The latitudinal diversity gradient suggests species richness is likely to be highest where?
Equator
Gould’s mouse Pseudomys gouldii was abundant in Australia prior to European settlement, afterwhich cats, rats and habitat alteration drove them extinct by 1857. Who was it named for?
Elizabeth Gould
A species that increases or decreases the diversity of a system is a
Keystone species
Modern scientific classification dates back to the 18th Century pubication of Systema Naturae by Swedish botanist and explorer
Carl Linnaeus
An individual with two different alleles at a given locus is considered
Heterozygous
Combination of an ecosystem state and environmental condition that persists and to which the system returns following perturbations is known as
Stable equilibrium
The retention of juvenile characteristics in an adult is
Neotony
What acronym is used to describe the effort to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests?
REDD
