Biology / Bio 3891 · Capstone · 2–3 minutes
Tracing a Species from Population Decline to Conservation Response, Worked Capstone
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This capstone traces one species' path from population-level decline through community and ecosystem context to a matched conservation response, drawing together atoms from all four of this unit's anchor chapters and closing the course.
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Treating a declining predator population as a single-cause problem solvable by one intervention is the error here — population regulation, per Bio 3563, community-level prey and competition dynamics, per Bio 3591, ecosystem-level energy flow, per Bio 3649, and habitat structure, per Bio 3741, are four distinct mechanisms operating on the same species at once, and a conservation response that addresses only one leaves the others unaddressed.
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- 3545Quadrat and Mark-Recapture Sampling Methods
- 3559Logistic Growth and Carrying Capacity
- 3563Density-Dependent Limiting Factors
- 3591Community Interactions: Competition
- 3617Interpreting a Population Change Through Community Interactions, Worked
- 3641Trophic Levels and Food Chains
- 3649Energy Flow and the Ten-Percent Rule
- 3701Species Richness and Species Diversity
- 3709How the IUCN Red List Classifies Extinction Risk
- 3741Habitat Loss and Fragmentation
- 3757In Situ Conservation: Protected Areas
- 3761Ex Situ Conservation: Captive Breeding and Seed Banks
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