The Best Way to Demonstrate the Effects of Interspecific Competition

question 11

Multiple Choice

The best way to demonstrate the effects of interspecific competition is

• A) Watch competing species and wait for one to displace another
• B) Perform an experiment: Add large numbers of predators
• C) Perform an experiment: Remove one of the hypothetical competing species
• D) Look for negative correlations in abundance between one species and another from place to place

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