Refer to the Tables and Figure

question 12

Essay

Refer to the tables and figure.
Figure 1
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 Table 1, Table 2, and Figure 1 to answer the following questions:
a) In community ecology studies, what is the relationship that you graphed in Figure 1 commonly called?
b) Which species community measure did you plot on the y-axis of the graph?
c) What percentage of the total individuals did you have to sample before you identified all of the species in your study area?
d) How many quadrats did you have to sample before you identified all of the species in your study area?

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