A section of forest in Costa Rica was a victim of deforestation. Given the information about the organisms above, which scenario is most likely to occur? A) The cecropia trees increase in number, the cecropia ants go extinct, and the strangler fig tree, not present before, emerges as a new species in the new barren land. B) The cecropia ants increase in number, the strangler fig tree goes extinct, and the cecropia trees although not present before, emerge as a new species in the new barren land. C) The strangler fig tree increases in number, the cecropia tree goes extinct, and the cecropia ants emerge as a new species in the new barren land. D) The cecropia tree increases in number, the strangler fig tree goes extinct, and the cecropia ants, not present before, now emerge as a new species in the new barren land.

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Marcelo Castaneda

Biology

28 April, 13:29

A section of forest in Costa Rica was a victim of deforestation. Given the information about the organisms above, which scenario is most likely to occur? A) The cecropia trees increase in number, the cecropia ants go extinct, and the strangler fig tree, not present before, emerges as a new species in the new barren land. B) The cecropia ants increase in number, the strangler fig tree goes extinct, and the cecropia trees although not present before, emerge as a new species in the new barren land. C) The strangler fig tree increases in number, the cecropia tree goes extinct, and the cecropia ants emerge as a new species in the new barren land. D) The cecropia tree increases in number, the strangler fig tree goes extinct, and the cecropia ants, not present before, now emerge as a new species in the new barren land.

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Option D.

Explanation:

Defforestation is the clearing and removal of trees to make the area barren land.

Deforestation in Costa Rica makes the strangler fig tree to grow extinct because this trees has seeds and the cecropia tree increases in number and ants not present before emerged as a new species on barren land. This is because as cecropia trees increase in number, the population of ants increase because most this ants feed on cecropia trees.