Thomas Bell and his colleagues studied bacterial species richness in isolated European beech treehole basins

("islands"). Their data showed that ______.



a. island size affects beech tree populations
b. the number of bacterial species decreases with treehole volume
c. the number of bacterial species increases with treehole volume
d. large beech trees support higher bacteria populations than small beech trees
e. the species-area effects on bacterial species differs from species-area effects on animal and plant populations
on true islands


ANSWER: c

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