If you have 145 zebra per square mile, you are describing the ______________ ?

Which of the following is an example of the type of distribution of organisms in their habitat?

Parrotfish live in harems with 1 male and many females (with the largest female converting to male when the pod loses the male).

What is the sex ratio of parrot fish?

Emperior Penguins are territorial birds that have nesting sites that are equally spaced. This is an example of what type of population distribution?

Naked mole rats live in colonies underground where the "queen" is kept fertilized by her own sons, while her daughters are sterilized by hormones in her urine.

What type of population distribution do naked mole rats have?

Oyster larvae can travel hundreds of kilometers powered by sea currents. Adult oysters form wherever the larvae settle.

The quadrat sampling method could be used to estimate the population of which of the following species?

Which method for estimating population size involves tagging the organisms and using the ratio of tagged and untagged organisms to estimate the population size?

A field biologist counts 35 clover plants in a 1 square meter quadrat. She is trying to estimate the population size in a 100 square meter area.

What is the estimate population of clover?

You and a team of scientists visit a lagoon. You are trying to determine if the population density of staghorn coral* changes along the Reef flat zone (see diagram).(*Coral is an animal species that remains stationary during its adult life.)

Which type of sampling technique would you use to determine how the coral population changes along this gradient?

You are trying to determine the population size of rabbits in Wheaton Regional park. You set traps and capture and mark 20 rabbits. You return to trap rabbits 10 times. The total number of rabbits you captured was 200 and of these 40 were marked.

Calculate =( (# marked) x (total captured) )/ total recapture marked