Lesson 3: Species in the environmental complex
Lesson 3: Species in the environmental complex
Lesson 3: Species in the environmental complex
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Shelford s<br />
Law of<br />
Tolerance<br />
• The distribution of<br />
a species along an<br />
<strong>environmental</strong><br />
gradient generally<br />
approximates a<br />
Gausian<br />
distribution, with<br />
<strong>the</strong> optimal<br />
occurrence<br />
somewhere near<br />
<strong>the</strong> midpo<strong>in</strong>t of <strong>the</strong><br />
distribution.<br />
From Smith’s Ecology and Field Ecology.
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