Predictions about which areas of Australia may be colonised by a new species of marine pest would best be made by
A) estimating the species' potential distribution.
B) measuring the species' realised distribution.
C) studying records of where, in Australia, other pest species have been a serious problem.
D) determining the temperature range for its growth.
E) knowing that the species will only colonise an area around the point of its introduction and that the size of the area will be equal to the distance that a larva of the species can disperse from its parent.
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