As the figure below illustrates, communities vary tremendously in size from as large as an entire forest to the digestive system of a single deer. 
How can biologists recognize where one community ends and a second begins?
A) Communities have no fixed boundaries; their sizes are simply defined according to what is convenient at a given point in time.
B) Each community is nested within a larger one, for example, the deer is part of the woodland, which is part of the forest.
C) Each community can be defined by the movement of food; all the organisms that get their energy from the same group of producers form the community.
D) Communities are human constructs rather than natural entities; as such their boundaries are arbitrarily established.
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