Refer to the Figure

question 20

Essay

Refer to the figure.
Figure 8
You are studying a new area to determine how disturbances affect species diversity. What could you conclude about the impact of competition if your data exhibited the pattern shown in Figure 8? According to the Menge-Sutherland model, what would this pattern tell you about resource use and recruitment in your study area?

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Structure

The three-dimensional arrangement of atoms within a molecule, which determines its chemical behavior.

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