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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Quammen describe Aru?
(a) Isolated.
(b)
(c) Interconnected.
(d) Urban.

2. What did William Newmark determine in his findings?
(a) That species count and reserve area are not always correlated.
(b) That species proliferate differently in different kinds of ecosystems.
(c) That species count and reserve area correlated.
(d) That the number of species is less valuable than the number of predators in indicating the health of an ecosystem.

3. How does Quammen describe the indri?
(a) Amicable.
(b) Extroverted.
(c) Reclusive.
(d) Impulsive.

4. Who had performed research in Aru?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Wallace.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Gould.

5. According to Jared Diamond, a nature reserve has to have what characteristics, in order to support a large number of species?
(a) On an island.
(b) Large and near other reserves.
(c) Close to agricultural land.
(d) Far away from human habitation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Carl Jones protect the Mauritius kestrels when their population began to recover?

2. What human actions make island biogeography applicable in this new location?

3. How did the data from Krakatau match Wilson and MacArthur's predictions?

4. Who confirmed to Quammen that this site in fact existed?

5. What theory came from the research that had been performed in Aru?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the practical example of species management Quammen cited from Texas?

2. What factors affected the populations on an island, according to 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography'?

3. What experiment took place in the Florida Keys?

4. How does Quammen describe Bedo's death?

5. What did Simberloff and Abele propose as a result of their data?

6. How do genetics play a role in the minimum viable population?

7. How did Carl Jones save the Mauritius kestrel?

8. Describe Quammen's attempt to see an indri.

9. What is the definition of 'viable' in Quammen's account?

10. What did MacArthur and Wilson argue in 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography'?

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