You Want to Understand the Birth Rate of a Salamander

question 27

Multiple Choice

You want to understand the birth rate of a salamander population.To understand the mechanistic reason associated with this salamander species birth rate,you would need to:

• A) Study the entire population and then the community
• B) Only study the community
• C) Look at reproduction in the individual salamanders
• D) Test how predators affect population numbers

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