Biology
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 59, Problem 4A
The introduction of a nonnative predator to an ecosystem could cause extinction by
a. causing a top-down trophic cascade (see Chapter 57).
b. outcompeting a native carnivore (see Chapter 56).
c. transmitting
d. All of the choices are correct.
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