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#Question id: 13141


Five similar populations of a herbaceous annual plant are monitored for three years; then, the numbers of individuals in populations I-IV are increased by an experimenter. Subsequent changes in the sizes of all the populations are shown in the graph below.

If size distributions of individuals do not vary among these populations, which of the following relationships best illustrates the occurrence of population regulation?

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. Populations I and II compared with population V
  2. Populations I and II compared with populations III and IV 
  3. Populations III and IV compared with population V
  4. Population I compared with population II