Bouchard and Brooks studied the effect of insect flight on dispersal and speciation in rain forest insects. They sampled all of the insects in the study area and found that 60 insect species are flightless and 19 are able to fly. These results indicate which of the following?
(P. Bouchard and D. R. Brooks, Effect of vagility potential on dispersal and speciation in rainforest insects, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17: 994-1006 [2004].)
A) Flightless insects have a greater dispersal potential from this study area.
B) Flightless insects are more numerous in the study area.
C) Flightless insects have a higher species richness in the study area.
D) Flightless insects are better suited for the tropics.
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