EBK BIOLOGY: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS
EBK BIOLOGY: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS
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ISBN: 8220100477805
Author: STARR
Publisher: CENGAGE L
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Chapter 40, Problem 1SQ
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To-determine:

The most common type of distribution of individuals in a population through their habitat.

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Ecology is the term which is used to study the interactions among organisms and their living and nonliving environment. Demographics are statistical characteristics that are used by ecologists to describe a population.

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Most commonly, individuals of a natural population show a clumped distribution through their habitat. Population distribution is the term which is used to describe the location of individuals relative to one another. A patchy distribution of resources is responsible for the most common population distribution pattern to be clumped one.

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Thus, the members of a population show a clumped distribution pattern through their habitat commonly.

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