Seedlings of understory trees in mature tropical rainforests must survive and grow using inter- mittent flecks of sunlight. How does the length of exposure to these flecks of sunlight (fleck duration) affect growth? Leakey et al. (2005) experimentally irradiated seedlings of the Southeast Asian rainforest tree Shorea leprosula with flecks of light of varying duration while maintaining the same total irradiance to all the seedlings. Their data for 21 seedlings are listed in the following table.  i. What is the rate of change in relative growth rate per minute of fleck duration? provide a standard error for your estimate. ii. using these data, test the hypothesis that fleck duration affects seedling growth rate. iii. Calculate a 99% confidence interval for the slope of the po

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Seedlings of understory trees in mature tropical rainforests must survive and grow using inter- mittent flecks of sunlight. How does the length of exposure to these flecks of sunlight (fleck duration) affect growth? Leakey et al. (2005) experimentally irradiated seedlings of the Southeast Asian rainforest tree Shorea leprosula with flecks of light of varying duration while maintaining the same total irradiance to all the seedlings. Their data for 21 seedlings are listed in the following table. 

i. What is the rate of change in relative growth rate per minute of fleck duration? provide a standard error for your estimate.

ii. using these data, test the hypothesis that fleck duration affects seedling growth rate.

iii. Calculate a 99% confidence interval for the slope of the population regression.

Mean fleck
Relative growth rate
(mm/mm/week)
Tree
duration (min)
1
3.4
0.013
2
3.2
0.008
3
3.0
0.007
2.7
0.005
5
2.8
0.003
6
3.2
0.003
7
2.2
0.005
8
2.2
0.003
9
2.4
0.000
10
4.4
0.009
11
5.1
0.010
12
6.3
0.009
7.3
6.0
0.009
0.016
13
14
15
5.9
0.025
16
7.1
0.021
17
8.8
0.024
7.4
0.019
18
19
7.5
0.016
20
7.5
0.014
21
7.9
0.014
Transcribed Image Text:Mean fleck Relative growth rate (mm/mm/week) Tree duration (min) 1 3.4 0.013 2 3.2 0.008 3 3.0 0.007 2.7 0.005 5 2.8 0.003 6 3.2 0.003 7 2.2 0.005 8 2.2 0.003 9 2.4 0.000 10 4.4 0.009 11 5.1 0.010 12 6.3 0.009 7.3 6.0 0.009 0.016 13 14 15 5.9 0.025 16 7.1 0.021 17 8.8 0.024 7.4 0.019 18 19 7.5 0.016 20 7.5 0.014 21 7.9 0.014
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