What type of population dispersion is most common, and how does area sampled affect how dispersion appears to a
researcher?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Clumped dispersion is extremely common in nature because suitable habitat conditions are
patchy in nature. However, the area sampled can affect how dispersion appears. Dispersion
may appear random or clumped or uniform at one spatial scale, but different at a different
spatial scale. For example, a population may appear randomly dispersed at a small scale,
but over the entire extent of the population, may be clumped. The larger the sampled area,
the more closely the actual dispersion pattern will be revealed, although dispersion at all
spatial scales is ecologically relevant.
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