Answers to Figure Legend Questions

FIGURE 19.4 No, it does not make sense that the fish and frog species should be present in the local community given in the figure, because that community contains terrestrial species. The abiotic filter should have excluded any aquatic species from this terrestrial community.

FIGURE 19.8 (B) shows the most resource partitioning (least overlap in resource use). (A) and (C) show the least resource partitioning (most overlap in resource use).

FIGURE 19.15 The lowest species richness occurred on the small boulders (their maximum richness was 4), which rolled over more frequently and thus experienced more disturbance compared with the other boulders.