How much must you invest today at 8% interest in order to see your investment grow to $8,000 in 10 years?

You conduct a mark-recapture survey of eastern fence lizards (Sceloporus undulates) in a 2-hectare plot in eastern Arizona. You mark 250 lizards and are able to recapture 75, of which 24 are marked. What is the estimated size of the population of fence lizards in this plot? Calculate the estimated population size for the plot and the estimated lizard density per hectare and per square meter. Use the following formulawhere M is the number of initially marked individuals, N is the population size, R is the number of recaptured marked individuals, and C is the total number of individuals recaptured. Round your answer to a whole number.

Fitness that an individual gains by passing on copies of its genes to its offspring is favored by _____ selection.

How does the removal of top predators affect mesopredator populations?

When a species is in danger of becoming extinct, scientists use ecological niche modeling to assess where the species might have the highest probability of successful reintroductions. What does ecological niche modeling determine?

In the logistic growth model with time delays, the product of rτ indicates the

Determining the suitable habitat conditions for a species is called _____ modeling.

A 1-kg glider and a 2-kg glider both slide toward each other at 1 m/s on an air track. They collide and stick. The combined mass moves at:

In the social interaction of altruism, the donor receives a(n) _____ in fitness and the recipient receives a(n) _____ in fitness.

Alpine ibex are a type of wild goat that lives high in the mountains. During winters with heavy snow, Alpine ibex have high mortality rates, but when winters have little snow, Alpine ibex have low mortality rates. This is an example of