Quiz: Basics of Ecology

1. Ecosystem ecology would focus on:

2. What does the term ‘ecosystem resilience’ most closely refer to?

3. A community in ecology refers to:

4. What does ‘metapopulation dynamics’ study?

5. Which term describes the ecological succession where an area with no soil and little life (like a newly formed volcanic island) begins to develop ecosystems?

6. The concept of ‘island biogeography’ mainly deals with:

7. What is ‘r-strategy’ in the context of population ecology?

8. Which type of ecology deals with the study of how ecosystems respond to natural or human-induced disturbances?

9. Which of the following would be studied under landscape ecology?

10. “Ecological stoichiometry” examines:

11. What is the final stable stage of ecological succession called?

12. The ‘Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis’ suggests that:

13. Which ecological principle describes the idea that closely related species are less likely to coexist in the same ecological niche due to competition?

14. In the context of ecological succession, what does ‘facilitation’ mean?

15. Which type of symbiosis is characterized by one species benefiting at the expense of another?

16. Synecology is the study of: