Wildlife Management Quizzes 1-5

What's the name for the phenomena in which closely related species living in the same area make use of variation in physiology, morphology, or behavior to reduce direct competition for limited resources?

Which of the pieces of legislation listed below provide mechanisms to directly fund wildlife research and conservation?

Under the client model, management of wildlife population was primarily focused on which group of wildlife?

Which type of burn would you use to promote growth of forbs on a prairie you are managing?

Imagine a prairie inhabited by populations of several different species of snakes: prairie kingsnakes, black racers, fox snakes, garter snakes, and ribbon snakes. You manage the prairie primarily by conducting regular controlled burns. You are one day given the opportunity to introduce a herd of bison to the prairie. Would the environmental changes associated with the introduction of grazing be expected to effect each population of snake the same way?

What is the term for a situation in which an environmental changes results in wildlife selecting a low quality habitat because the low quality habitat provides the environmental cues a species normally associates with high quality habitat?

You do a population study of woodpeckers in two different forests. The results from the two forests are:

Forest A

• You find that 50% of trees are suitable for excavating nest cavities

• On average 5 young are fledged per nest

• Estimated available forage biomass = 5 kg/ha

Forest B

• You find that 50% of trees are suitable for excavating nest cavities

• On average 3 young are fledged per nest

• Estimated available forage biomass = 6 kg/ha

Which forest is the higher quality woodpecker habitat?

What's that? You want another question about a hypothetical population of woodpeckers? Well, if you insist.

Say you are studying a species of woodpeckers in a forest, and you are interesting in learning about nesting habitat.

You do surveys during the nesting season, find as many woodpecker nests as possible, and measure the height of all the trees you find that woodpeckers have used to make nests in.

You also measure the heights of a large number number of randomly selected trees in the forest - trees that were available in the forest, but not used for nesting.

You report that the overall height of available trees in the forest ranges from 4 - 10m, and the heights of trees that woodpeckers used for nesting was 6 - 8m. What type of information are you reporting?

The selection process that a woodpecker uses to determine which trees within its home range to forage in is an example of...

Within a wetland, there are enough natural cavities and nest boxes to house 30 pairs of nesting wood ducks. However, there is only enough food available in the wetland to support 20 pairs of nesting wood ducks. In this wetland, food availability is an example of a...

The distinct vegetation communities that mark the progression of ecological succession are known as....

Which federal cost-share programs provide payments for landowners to take land out of agricultural production and engage in conservation practices?

Given limited money and resources, rank the areas below in order of priority for focusing habitat management and conservation practices.

1 = top priority

3 = least priority

What types of trees are managers most trying to promote with management actions in woodlands at Whetstone Creek CA?

Indicate whether each population growth rate estimate means the population is increasing, decreasing, or remaining stable

The natural variation in population growth overtime that results from changes in factors such as climate, habitat quality, predation and disease prevalence results in...

Disease outbreaks spread more easily through a population as population density increases, reducing survival rates. This is an example of:

What would you expect to happen to a population when its density exceeds the carrying capacity of the environment?

The estimated carrying capacity for a population of raptors in a national park is K = 0.5 hawks/sq km. At which population density below would we expect to see the greatest recruitment in this population?

Below are the results of a sensitivity analysis presenting the analytical elasticity for annual survival of a species with 5 different age classes: Based on these results, is the population more sensitive to changes in the survival rates of young age classes, or older age classes?

What is an example of a stochastic factor that would be expected to have a large impact on small, isolated populations?

Within a sub-population, we observe that:

Reproductive rates outpace mortality and the population is near environmental carrying capacity.

Surplus individuals regularly disperse from the subpopulation and a portion of them successfully settle and integrate into other subpopulation.

Is this populations a source population, a sink population, or neither?

What is the stable stage distribution?

The population growth rate for the population of a long-lived species with a low reproductive rate is most likely to be particularly sensitive to changes in...