One focus of the wog wog project is to understand how reducing habitat size impacts extinction rates of different beetle species. Relevant data include numbers of individuals of a species that are captured over time in fragments of different sizes and in the control area. This question focuses on what subfield of ecology?

A) Organismal
B) Population
C) Community
D) Landscape
E) Ecosystem

Respuesta :

Answer:

C. Community

Explanation:

The Wog Wog Project is a study taking place in southeastern Australia which looks at how plants and animals are affected by habitat fragmentation. Habitat fragmentation occurs when a natural environment is divided into smaller pieces causing the physical layout of the environment to change.

The study is a focus has been the loss of speciose beetle fauna (~700 species) while new work also includes investigation of the soil microbial community, skink, ant and plant communities, and microclimate.