[CHAPTER 2 – Ecology] Students inventoried the species of tr…
[CHAPTER 2 – Ecology] Students inventoried the species of trees in a patch of forest near their school. They counted 55 trees and identified 12 different species of trees. Most of the 55 individual trees were either red oaks or scarlet oaks; other species were represented by less than 3 individuals each. They then inventoried a patch of forest of equal size in a nearby national forest and found 80 trees representing 28 species of trees, and there were 2 – 4 individual trees for each species in the patch. Compared to the forest near the school, the national forest has:
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