Your colleague designed a common garden experiment to determine if desiccation (drying out) influences competition between a native alga and an exotic alga. The design includes four plot types: dry with native only, dry with exotic only, dry with both algae, and wet with both algae. When grown together on dry plots, the native grew well while the exotic went extinct. When grown together on wet plots, the exotic grew well while the native went extinct. Both algae grew in dry plots when grown alone. You note that his experimental design is incomplete and, as a result, he cannot support one of the following conclusions. Which conclusion is NOT supported?

a. Dry habitats are part of the fundamental niche of the native alga.
b. Dry habitats are part of the fundamental niche of the exotic alga.
c. The native alga competitively excludes the exotic alga in dry habitats.
d. The exotic alga competitively excludes the native alga in wet habitats.