Figure 53.8 -Clements's View of Biological Communities Is That of a Highly

question 39

Multiple Choice

Figure 53.8
-Clements's view of biological communities is that of a highly predictable and interrelated structure,while Gleason's view of biological communities is that individual species operate independently.Looking at the results in the figure above,which hypothesis (by Clements or Gleason) is supported by the data?

• A)Clements
• B)Gleason
• C)both
• D)neither

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Definitions:

Ordered Data Set

A collection of objects or numbers arranged in a natural, chronologically sequential or hierarchical order.

Median

The value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, often used as a measure of central tendency.

Variability

A measure of the dispersion or spread of data points in a dataset, indicating how much the numbers differ from each other and from the mean.

Measures Of Variability

Statistics that describe the extent to which scores in a distribution differ from one another, including the range, variance, and standard deviation.