Professional Documents
Culture Documents
CONCEPT
Example Theories
Ecology:
•Resource competition
theory: Predicting how competition for
resources shapes population dynamics
and community composition.
•Island biogeography
theory: Modeling species richness and
extinction risk on islands based on size
and distance from mainland.
Biology
•Natural selection theory: Explaining
how heritable traits that enhance survival
and reproduction become more common
over generations.
Daphnia’s Heart
Temperature
Rate
Growth and
Type of Diet Survival of
Mealworms