EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Clumped dispersion is often due to an uneven distribution of nutrients or other resources in the environment. It can also be caused by social interactions between individuals. Additionally, in organisms that don’t move, such as plants, offspring might be very close to their parents and show clumped dispersion patterns.

Detailed explanation-2: -Uniform dispersion. In uniform dispersion, individuals of a population are spaced more or less evenly. One example of uniform dispersion comes from plants that secrete toxins to inhibit growth of nearby individuals-a phenomenon called allelopathy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Uniform patterns of dispersion are generally a result of interactions between individuals like competition and territoriality. Clumped patterns usually occur when resources are concentrated in small areas within a larger habitat or because of individuals forming social groups.

Detailed explanation-4: -Individuals of a population can be distributed in one of three basic patterns: they can be more or less equally spaced apart (uniform dispersion), dispersed randomly with no predictable pattern (random dispersion), or clustered in groups (clumped dispersion).