EBK BIOLOGY
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ISBN: 9780133996807
Author: Maier
Publisher: PEARSON CUSTOM PUB.(CONSIGNMENT)
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Chapter 14, Problem 7LTB
In contrast to nonhuman
- voluntarily increasing death rates;
- voluntarily decreasing birth rates;
- involuntary increases in death rates;
- involuntary decreases in birth rates;
- density-dependent factors
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