You are out in Wyoming, catching and marking coyotes You catch 23 coyates and mark them. They are released back into the wild. Two weeks later, you catch 15 coyotes. 10 of them have the mark you put on them. What is your population estimate? What other things, besides population size, might a population ecologist want to learn about his choosen population? How could mark- recapture also tell us about gene flow between populations

You are out in Wyoming, catching and marking coyotes You catch 23 coyates and mark them. They are released back into the wild. Two weeks later, you catch 15 coyotes. 10 of them have the mark you put on them. What is your population estimate? What other things, besides population size, might a population ecologist want to learn about his choosen population? How could mark- recapture also tell us about gene flow between populations

Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)

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ISBN:9781305117396

Author:Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr

Publisher:Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr

Chapter16: Population Ecology

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