2. Why might a manager of an exploited population, such as a commercially important fish, want to keep fish population size near one-half K and not much lower?
3. Why can we be sure that all animal and plant populations are under some form of environmental control?
4. What appears to set the carrying capacity for medium ground finches on Daphne Major Island?
5. Why did Westoby, Leishman, and Lord (1996) include five floras on three continents in their study?
6. Why did Jacobsson and Eriksson (2000) conduct their study of the relationship between seed size and seedling size in a greenhouse?
7. Explain the main difference between the study by Bertschy and Fox (1999) and that of Gunderson (1997)?
8. Why did Bertschy and Fox restrict their study to lakes without major inflows or outflows?
9. If a concept, such as r and K selection, does not fully represent the richness of life history variation among species, can it still be valuable to science?
10. Under what conditions should natural selection favor production of many small offspring versus the production of a few well provisioned offspring?
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