FORESTRY
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
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Question
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Rabbits and foxes both occupy an ecosystem. If the rabbit population is depleted by disease, what will happen to the fox population?
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More foxes would immigrate to the area.
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The fox population would increase.
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The fox population would decrease.
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The fox population would not change.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -If the rabbit population decreases, then the fox population will slowly start to decrease as a result of insufficient prey and food. There would be an overgrowth of grass and plantations since there is no rabbits to eat them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Disease outbreaks can also cause rabbit populations to crash and residual disease levels probably have an ongoing limiting effect. Drought limits food supply and breeding success. High rainfall floods rabbit burrows and drowns their young.
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