Population ecologists are primarily interested in
A) studying interactions among populations of organisms that inhabit the same area.
B) understanding how biotic and abiotic factors influence the density, distribution, size, and age structure of populations.
C) how humans affect the size of wild populations of organisms.
D) how populations evolve as natural selection acts on heritable variations among individuals and changes in gene frequency.
E) the overall vitality of a population of organisms.

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Population ecologists study how biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) factors influence the density (number of individuals per unit area), distribution (where individuals are located within the area), size (total number of individuals in the population), and age structure (the proportion of individuals in different age groups) of populations.

Population Ecologists Are Primarily Interested in