Which Is an Example of the Rescue Effect

question 29

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of the rescue effect?
I. A small population of birds maintains a stable population size near carrying capacity.
II. A population of mice in a low-quality habitat persists because of immigration from high-quality habitats.
III. Habitat destruction reduces the quality of an environment and causes a population of lizards to decline every year until they go extinct.

• A) I only
• B) II only
• C) III only
• D) I and II
• E) II and III

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

Refers to a statistical distribution that represents all possible values of a statistic for a given size of samples drawn from a population.

Variability

The extent to which data points in a statistical distribution or dataset differ from each other.

Difference

In statistics, this refers to the subtraction of one value from another to determine the gap or extent of variation between them.

Directional Null Hypothesis

A type of null hypothesis that specifies the direction of the difference or association between two variables.