Ecologist James H

question 69

Multiple Choice

Ecologist James H. Brown of the University of New Mexico has addressed species composition and richness in experiments conducted since 1977 in the Chihuahuan desert of southeastern Arizona. In one experiment, the removal of three dominant species, all kangaroo rats, from several plots resulted in an increased diversity of other rodent species. This increase was ascribed both to lowered competition for food and also to an altered habitat, because the abundance of grass species ____ after the removal of the kangaroo rats.

• A) increased
• B) decreased
• C) did not change
• D) was threatened
• E) shrunk

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