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The author mentions "Jeffrey Masten" primarily to
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According to the passage, the "model of the author"
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The author mentions a "border, fence, or corral" primarily to
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In the context in which it appears, the word "holds" most nearly means
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The passage suggests which of the following about Nast's departure from Harper's Weekly?
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The passage suggests which of the following about the "standards of decorum”?
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In light of the information given, which of the following, if true, most helps to account for Andesara's now importing more grain than it exports?
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According to the passage, after the 1440s, Timurid paintings of court scenes
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The passage implies which of the following about the introduction of floral-patterned rugs in Timurid royal courts?
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Experiments and field observations show that in a Mediterranean plant community, drought has a counterintuitively positive effect on shrub seedling establishment. Due to decreased competition by annuals, droughts increase opportunities for shrub seedlings. Under nondrought conditions, annuals competed with shrub seedlings more effectively, confirming the experimenters' assumption that annuals benefit more than shrub seedlings from an increase in water availability. This may be attributed to their faster or more efficient uptake of soil resources. Similar patterns can be observed in other semi-arid communities. Jurena and Archer showed for a savanna community that root biomass of grasses increased in wetter conditions, decreasing grassland susceptibility to encroachment by shrub seedlings.
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It can be inferred from the passage that the "positive effect" occurs because
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The author of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements about the growth of shrub seedlings?
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