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The contamination of soils with heavy metals has become more common as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, industrial activities, and agricultural fertilizer application. These heavy metals can be toxic depending on the concentrations that accumulate in an organism. A scientist hypothesizes that biological magnification of heavy metals in fragment-dwelling, insect-eating birds should be greater in forest fragments with relatively more edge habitat because edge-dwelling bird species may forage for insects in contaminated areas outside of the forest. Forest fragments with more interior habitat would not have as much biological magnification because insect-eating interior bird species would have less exposure to insects that contain heavy metals.
-To test this hypothesis, the scientist conducts an experiment. Which of the following designs would be most informative?
A) Locate a single forest fragment with equal amounts of edge and interior habitat, then sample the blood of insect-eating birds at regular distances along a path across the widest point of the fragment.
B) Locate several forest fragments of similar sizes but different shapes, then sample the blood of insect-eating birds at regular distances along a 100-m path in each fragment.
C) Locate several forest fragment of different sizes but similar shapes, then sample the blood of insect-eating birds at regular distances along a path across the widest point of each fragment.
D) Locate several forest fragments of similar sizes and shapes, then sample the blood of insect-eating birds at regular distances along a 100-m path in each fragment.
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