You are a population ecologiststudying animals in a national park, and park managersare asking for advice on how to focus their limited conservationfunds. How might you rate the following threespecies, from most vulnerable (and thus most in need ofconservation attention) to least vulnerable? Give reasonsfor your choices.• A bird that is a generalist in its use of habitats andresources• A salamander endemic to the park that lives in highelevationforest• A fish that specializes on a few types of invertebrateprey and has a large population size
You are a population ecologiststudying animals in a national park, and park managersare asking for advice on how to focus their limited conservationfunds. How might you rate the following threespecies, from most vulnerable (and thus most in need ofconservation attention) to least vulnerable? Give reasonsfor your choices.• A bird that is a generalist in its use of habitats andresources• A salamander endemic to the park that lives in highelevationforest• A fish that specializes on a few types of invertebrateprey and has a large population size
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You are a population ecologist
studying animals in a national park, and park managers
are asking for advice on how to focus their limited conservation
funds. How might you rate the following three
species, from most vulnerable (and thus most in need of
conservation attention) to least vulnerable? Give reasons
for your choices.
• A bird that is a generalist in its use of habitats and
resources
• A salamander endemic to the park that lives in highelevation
forest
• A fish that specializes on a few types of invertebrate
prey and has a large population size
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