Question

1.what is the underlying ecological theory to species distributions?

2.What factors may affect the distribution of a species in the short time (< 20 years)? ... in the long time?

3. Does there appear to be a relationship between distance and growth or fitness?Is the relationship positive or negative? What is your interpretation?

4 summarize the differences in community and community composition and suggest possible reasons for the differences.How do the concepts of alpha ( ), beta ( ), and gamma ( ) diversity apply?

5. Which is more important for conservation management, knowledge of community composition or community diversity?explain/.