A doe and her fawn live in a small forest.They move out to the forest edge and into a nearby field to feed, and they drink from a pond across the field or from a stream that runs out of the forest.Sometimes they venture across the highway to the forest on the other side.The interaction of these animals with several communities suggests they are living at what spatial scale?
A) Local
B) Global
C) Regional
D) Landscape
E) Biogeographic

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The interaction of the doe and her fawn with their immediate surroundings - the small forest, the field, the highway, the nearby communities - suggests that they are living at the landscape scale. The landscape scale refers to the spatial extent over which ecological processes at the community level interact with abiotic factors. In this case, the landscape includes both natural and human-made features, and the deer's movements and interactions occur at this scale.

A Doe and Her Fawn Live in a Small Forest