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Q4.16. Your colleague designed a common garden experiment to determine if moistu

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Question

Q4.16. Your colleague designed a common garden experiment to determine if moisture level influences competition between a native alga and an exotic alga. The design includes four plot types: wet with native only, wet with exotic only, wet with both algae, and dry with both algae. The results are below Plot Native alga Exotic alga Wet: native only Grew well n/a Wet: exotic only n/a Wet: both algae Grew well Went extinct Dry: both algae Went extinct Grew well Grew well You note that his experimental design is incomplete and, as a result, he cannot support one of the following conclusions. Which conclusion is NOT supported? The native alga's fundamental niche includes wet habitats. The exotic alga's fundamental niche includes wet habitats. The exotic alga competitively excludes the native alga in dry habitats. The native alga competitively excludes the exotic alga in wet habitats.

Explanation / Answer

From the experimental design it is concluded that the B option I.e.the exotic alga's fundamental niche includes wet habitats.