Question
Robert MacArthur introduced a mechanistic model of this process that explicitly describes resource dynamics. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this ecological process of vying for limited resources. The Lotka-Volterra model of this process predicts coexistence only when it is stronger within species than between species.
ANSWER: resource competition
[10h] This biologist pointed out that simple changes to allow mutualism in the Lotka-Volterra model would cause an "orgy of mutual benefaction." This man showed that even simple population models like the logistic map could show chaotic dynamics.
ANSWER: Robert May [Robert McCredie May]
[10m] May popularized the use of this quantity in disease ecology. This quantity refers to the number of cases caused by transmission from a single case in a fully susceptible population.
ANSWER: R0 [or R-nought; or basic reproduction number; or basic reproductive number]
<Shan Kothari , Science - Biology - Ecology/Evolution>
Summary
| 2023 NASAT | 06/17/2023 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
Data
| Arkansas | Illinois Orange | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia | Missouri A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Missouri B | Maryland Red | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Asia A | Pennyslvania | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |