What is the typical shape of a population growth curve? How the biotic potential can be represented in the same graphic?
262What is the cost-benefit relation regarding sewage treatment as a strategy to fight water pollution?
246In the short range what will happen to the levels above and below a population of secondary consumers of a numeric pyramid if a large number of individuals from this population dies?
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Define environmental resistance?
Explain the main causes of the loss of the biological diversity nowadays?
Explain some examples of migratory animals?
Explain how does biological diversity relate to the characteristics of the abiotic factors of an ecosystem?
Explain ammensalism?
What do energy pyramids represent?
What is benthos?
What are autotrophic beings? What are heterotrophic beings?
What are persistent organic pollutants (POPs?
How do biodiversity, the total number of living beings, and the biomass respectively vary during the ecological succession?
How does net primary production relate to the energy pyramids?
What are the three main types of tropic pyramids studied in Ecology?
Define water cycle?
What is mutualism?
Explain how do the availability of water and light and the climate affect the growth of a population?