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The spatial distribution at any particular moment of the individuals of a species of plant or animal. Under natural conditions organisms are...



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Figure 1.Basic patterns of the dispersion of individuals in a population. (a) Random. (b) Uniform. (c) Clumped, but groups random. (After E. P. Odum, Fundamentals of Ecology, Saunders, 1953)
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Figure 2.Distances measured in four methods of plotless sampling. (a) Closest individual. (b) Nearest neighbor. (c) Random pairs, with 180° exclusion angle. (d) Point-centered quarter. The cross represents the sampling point in each case. (After P. Greig-Smith, Quantitative Plant Ecology, Butterworths, 1987)
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