Question
Leeward side growth is prioritized by vegetation growing in environments with high values of this quantity, allowing them to take up a flag-like appearance. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this quantity that, along with latitude, defines the boundary of tree growth in alpine ecosystems at the“tree line.”
ANSWER: altitude [or elevation; accept height]
[10m] Robert Colwell posited how intermediate values of altitude and longitude maximize this quantity in the mid-domain effect. Indices measuring this quantity incorporate combinations of dominance, evenness, and richness.
ANSWER: biodiversity [accept species diversity; prompt on number of species]
[10h] The mid-domain effect may explain why these ecosystems contain the highest endemism of epiphytes. Vegetation in these relatively high-altitude ecosystems receives most of its water from fog drip.
ANSWER: cloud forests [or water forests; accept primas forests or tropical montane cloud forests or TMCFs or mossy forests; prompt on tropical forests]
<Science - Biology>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 57% | 86% | 29% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 67% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 75% | 100% | 25% |
Data
| Iowa | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State | Michigan A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan B | North Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL | Ohio | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vassar | Penn State B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |