UV radiation is used to cause DNA breakage. UV reacts quickly hence helps to catch momentary protein binding and can be used in vivo as it penetrates cell membranes easily. But gels from such assays are difficult to interpret.

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Clement’s organismic model - Competition causes sharp boundaries between groups of species; certain species group together.

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Gleason’s individualistic model - Competition does not cause sharp boundaries; different species do not group together due to physical variables.

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Species richness - which is a count of the number of species.

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One major problem is that this approach does not take species frequency of occurrence or relative abundance into account.