You assess the population size in each habitat patch and find that…
Question Answered step-by-step You assess the population size in each habitat patch and find that… Image transcription textYou are consulting on an Environmental Impact assessment for a developer that wants to build an apartmentcomplex on a plot of land {patch (3) that is part of a natural metapopulation of endangered salamanders. … Show moreYou assess the population size in each habitat patch and find that the salamanders are locally extinct in habitat patch G. The developer has taken this to mean that they can go ahead with their project to build on that site. Your colleague, an ecologist, responds with, “If we leave it, they [the salamanders] will come.” Explain what the ecologist means by this statement and why it is important that habitat patch G remains protected. Biology Science Genetics BIOL 1001 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)


