Question: Austin and Smith plotted the environmental distribution of plant species relative to a) an enviro…

Austin and Smith plotted the environmental distribution of plant
species relative to a) an environmental gradient (altitude) and b)
as a function of their spatial distributions along a transect and
found that certain species distributions correlated with altitude,
while some species were found in regular patterns of association
that were repeated in multiple communities. You can accurately
conclude that __________.

a. no real pattern emerges

b. the data clearly supports the individualistic view of
community

c.the data supports both the continuous and organismic views of
community

d.the data show a correlation of species with altitude in a
typical cline

e. the data clearly supports the continuous view of
community