If Two Species Are in Competition for the Same Resources

question 5

Multiple Choice

If two species are in competition for the same resources,

• A)we can infer they are in a predator-prey relationship.
• B)a new species will be most likely to enter the ecosystem if the species decrease the overlap in their niche.
• C)one will always drive the other into extinction.
• D)they cannot be part of the same ecosystem.

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Definitions:

Resamples

The process of drawing repeated samples from the same initial dataset, typically used in bootstrap and other resampling methodologies.

Standard Error

A measure of the sampling distribution variability of a statistic, often used to describe the accuracy of a sample mean estimate.

Sample Median

A measure of central tendency that identifies the middle value in a sorted sample set.

Resamples

The action of drawing repeated samples from the same data set, typically used in bootstrap methods for statistical inference.