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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. What had happened to the smaller reserves in Lovejoy's plan?
(a) They took longer to arrive at an equilibrium of species.
(b) They unraveled quickly.
(c) They arrived at an equilibrium with a higher density than some larger reserves.
(d) They swelled with species.

2. What habitats did researchers have to examine in the Texas case?
(a) Deep sections in the water.
(b) Riffles.
(c) Wetlands.
(d) Hillsides for burrows.

3. What was the state of Lovejoy's plan when Quammen visited the sites with him?
(a) Lovejoy had determined to make many small reserves in an area, allowing development.
(b) Lovejoy had determined to make nature reserves as large as possible.
(c) No conclusions had been reached.
(d) Lovejoy had determined the ideal number of acres for a nature reserve.

4. Where does Quammen say the theory of island ecology now applies?
(a) In microclimates.
(b) In the mainlands as well.
(c) In caves.
(d) In mountainous regions.

5. What does Quammen say Wilson and MacArthur started with, as they developed their theories?
(a) Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest.
(b) Darwin's theory of adaptation.
(c) Data from Krakatau.
(d) Preston's species-area relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the central message of Quammen's book?

2. What was Lovejoy trying to determine with his plan?

3. What did Wilson and MacArthur postulate according to Quammen?

4. What was the previous theory that governed speciation on islands?

5. What was Thomas Lovejoy's interest in the debate about the size of reserves and the number of species they support?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the effect of 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography', according to Quammen?

3. How does Quammen describe Bedo's death?

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

5. What is Quammen doing at the end of the book?

6. What did Lovejoy find in his studies on this question?

7. What did people argue over in the wake of Simberloff and Abele's 1976 article?

8. What conclusion dis scientists reach in the Texas case?

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

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

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