Question

3 biology questions?

Answer 1

10. What are the limitations of the population dynamics lab? Is the whale and seal simulation of predation a realistic representation of an Arctic marine ecosystem?

Answer 2

What are they?

Answer 3

6. In Part 3 of our lab, how did overfishing (a biotic factor) increase the growth of the whale population? How did the viral infection of the whales (another biotic factor) increase the growth of the seal population?
7. Climate change (an abiotic factor) has slowly decreased habitat for the Arctic seals. Predict how a reduction in habitat could change the capture efficiency of the killer whales in our simulation? How might this affect the population of both the whales and the seals?

Answer 4

for 6,
Whale capture
efficiency Seal carrying
capacity Whale carrying
capacity
0.008 140 560
0.004 160 110

Answer 5

so basically when you catch more whales, there are more whales than seals and when you catch less whales there are more seals, which doesn't make any sense but that's the data I have

Answer 6

This is a lab, the data you have collected will answer these questions. The data you have collected doesn't make much sense to me...Why don't you talk to your teacher. Tell he or she that it doesn't make sense, they'll help you out. What school do you go to?

Answer 7

Its VLACS, an online virtual school, I talked to her yesterday and its the right data so now I'm just confused