1) Please describe the pattern found in these data in the form of a graph and an explanatory caption.

2) What do these experimental results tell us? Provide as careful and complete an interpretation of the results as you can.

3) Consider the following hypothesis: Birds nesting on the edge of the forest will produce fewer offspring than those on the interior.

Does the data support this particular hypothesis? Why?

Now consider the data analysis done by Student X, below.

Name: Student X

1) Please describe the pattern found in these data in the form of a graph and an explanatory caption.

Pages File Edit Insert Format Arrange View Window Help 8 0 2 Q Mon Nov 21 2:17 PM 7 PracticeSkills_EX_modified - Edited 84% EE A 9 View Zoom Insert Table Chart Text Shape Media Collaborate Format Document Minecraft PART I. DATA Firefox Brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater), are North American's most common "brood parasite." These birds parasitize the nests of female birds of another species, laying their eggs in their nests, and leaving the host parents to raise the cowbird chicks. The data below are from a study on the effect of brown-headed cowbirds in relation to the position of the nests in the forest. Specifically, the study investigated whether proximity Mahjong Solitaire of nests to the forest edge was related to the incidence (or likelihood) of cowbird parasitism. This is an important issue for the conservation of forest birds, because PDF Epic forests are increasingly fragmented by roads-a process that can create new forest edges-and cowbird parasitism can have a strong negative effect on nest success in rendered_pdf.pdf some cases. Table 1. Percentage of bird nests parasitized by cowbirds recorded for 24 locations in Gaston Forest (fictitious location). Data based on the information from Brittingham and Temple (1983). Survey location Distance from the forest edge (m) Bird nests parasitized (%) 65 64 W N 40 65 60 62 OUI A 80 59 100 55 120 57 40 50 60 45 80 46 200 45 20 42 40 38 260 36 g 34 300 28 320 24 340 26 360 20 PracticeSkills_EX_ 20 modified 380 400 18 420 440 460 16 NOV 21