Population Ecologists Are Primarily Interested in

question 19

Multiple Choice

Population ecologists are primarily interested in

• A) studying interactions among populations of organisms that inhabit the same area.
• B) understanding how biotic and abiotic factors influence the density, distribution, size, and age structure of populations.
• C) how humans affect the size of wild populations of organisms.
• D) how populations evolve as natural selection acts on heritable variations among individuals and changes in gene frequency.
• E) the overall vitality of a population of organisms.

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