Which of the Following Is Not an Assumption of a Neutral

question 28

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not an assumption of a neutral model of species coexistence?

• A) Resources in a community are made available by disturbance.
• B) There are competitive hierarchies among species.
• C) Random chance is a mechanism maintaining species diversity.
• D) Species use resources in similar ways.

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Definitions:

Negative Linear Relationship

A relationship between two variables where an increase in one variable leads to a decrease in the other, represented by a downward sloping line on a graph.

Dependent Variable

In statistical modeling and experiments, it is the variable assumed to depend on one or more independent variables.

Variables

In research, variables are any characteristics, numbers, or quantities that can be measured or controlled.

Interval Variables

Variables that have measurable distances between the values they can take, but no true zero point, allowing for the quantification of differences between values.