Explain Gleason's individualistic model describing community structure. What will be an ideal response?


Gleason’s individualistic model describing community structure states that biologic
interactions are less important in the production of communities than are environmental
gradients or even chance.

Biology & Microbiology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Why are toxins more concentrated in sediments than in the overlying water column?

What will be an ideal response?

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Which structure or structures function to open and close the stomata?

a. cuticle b. mesophyll c. palisade cells d. guard cells e. chloroplasts

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In a pond, tadpoles eat algae and fish eat the tadpoles. Above the pond, grasshoppers eat grass and, at night, are preyed upon by bats. Other bats eat the fish that eat the tadpoles. In this community, the fish-eating bats are:

A. primary producers. B. primary consumers. C. secondary consumers. D. tertiary consumers. E. detritivores.

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