Refer to the Tables and the Figure

question 59

Essay

Refer to the tables and the figure.
Figure 3
Suppose you are researching an ecological community in a new study area. You divide your study area into quadrats and sample one quadrat a day to determine the species that occupy the area and how many individuals of these species are present. Assume that by the end of your sampling efforts, you have identified all of the species that occur in the study area. Use Tables 3, 4, and 5 as well as Figure 3 to answer the following questions:
a) Which species is most common in each community?
b) Which species is the rarest in each community?
c) Are the same species always common and always rare, or is there variation?
d) How are communities 5 and 10 similar? How do they differ? Consider species composition, proportion, abundance, and richness in your answer.
e) How are communities 10 and 12 similar? How do they differ? Consider species composition, abundance, and richness in your answer.

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