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Re: Ecology
Posted: April 10th, 2009, 8:12 am
by Liv
No, never heard of that......
Re: Ecology
Posted: April 10th, 2009, 8:22 am
by sewforlife
it was outside of the rules.. so. which is predictable, regions is always kinda out of the box
Re: Ecology
Posted: April 10th, 2009, 8:28 am
by Phenylethylamine
Yeah, and they are allowed to give you things not specifically mentioned in the rules, as long as they're within the topics.
Re: Ecology
Posted: April 10th, 2009, 8:34 am
by sewforlife
yep. it sucks. especially when u expect the proctors to know the rules or the info, and they dont know either
Re: Ecology
Posted: April 10th, 2009, 9:52 am
by soobsession
sewforlife wrote:yep. it sucks. especially when u expect the proctors to know the rules or the info, and they dont know either
grr...exactly what happened in meteorology...

(sorry had to post this)
Re: Ecology
Posted: April 10th, 2009, 12:10 pm
by sewforlife
... so does anyone know what the graph is called? or what your supposed to do with it?
Re: Ecology
Posted: April 10th, 2009, 1:04 pm
by Phenylethylamine
Survivorship curves! I just remembered. Is that what you were talking about?
There are 3 types of organisms by survivorship. Type I is like humans- low probability of death at a young age (because the parents raise the children), high probability of death of old age. Type II, age has no effect on the probability of death- they're just as likely to die when they're young as when they're old. Type III is like fish or something- high probability of death of the young (so they have a LOT of offspring, most of which die, but there's still a decent number), but lower probability as they get older.
Re: Ecology
Posted: April 10th, 2009, 2:07 pm
by Liv
I have never heard about that but now I know about it and smrter!!!!
Re: Ecology
Posted: April 10th, 2009, 7:18 pm
by gneissisnice
Phenylethylamine wrote:Survivorship curves! I just remembered. Is that what you were talking about?
There are 3 types of organisms by survivorship. Type I is like humans- low probability of death at a young age (because the parents raise the children), high probability of death of old age. Type II, age has no effect on the probability of death- they're just as likely to die when they're young as when they're old. Type III is like fish or something- high probability of death of the young (so they have a LOT of offspring, most of which die, but there's still a decent number), but lower probability as they get older.
Yay, I managed to teach Phenyl something! =)
I taught her this at a practice earlier this week.

Re: Ecology
Posted: April 11th, 2009, 8:09 am
by Phenylethylamine
Yes! See, I
was paying attention! Now if this comes up on the event, I'm going to be all happy
