An ecologist samples the abundance of various species along an environmental gradient and fails to find clusters of species. Instead, peaks of abundance of dominant species are merely randomly spaced segments along a continuum

This distribution of species supports the A) unified concept of a community.
B) organismic concept of a community.
C) individualistic or continuum concept of a community.
D) successional concept of a community.


C

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