That a Predator Finds Itself in an Environment with Increased

question 13

Multiple Choice

That a predator finds itself in an environment with increased prey, yet does not immediately convert the prey consumed in such a resource-rich environment into offspring is the foundation for the idea of

• A) overshoot and die-off.
• B) delayed density dependence.
• C) extinction modeling.
• D) metapopulation dynamics.

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