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Questions to Summarize and Discuss
1. Is scale (spatial or temporal) a factor in the analysis? How is it defined and how is it used?
2. If the habitat is a mosaic, how are the patches defined spatially and temporally? Are the definitions organism specific? Is this important to the analysis?
3. If disturbance is involved, which of the 'quantifiable' parameters have been measured/estimated? Give their values.
4. If competition is invoked, what is the resource, how frequent are the organism encounters, is the form of competition hierarchical? What data support these conclusions?
5. What properties of the organisms, if any, appear to drive the system?
Typed answers to the above questions are due Monday 11/16/98 by 1 pm in Wethey's email (wethey@biol.sc.edu). Copies will be emailed by Monday 3 pm. Please read them prior to discussion on Tuesday.