Consider a food web consisting of two mutualistic species (species A and B) and two pathogen species (species C and D). Pathogen C is a specialist on species A, and pathogen D is a specialist on species B. An increase in the density of species D would lead to ________ of species C. If a scientist didn't know about the two mutualist species, he or she might think the pathogens were ______.
a decrease; competitors
a decrease; mutualists
an increase; competitors
an increase; mutualists

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Consider a food web consisting of two mutualistic species (species A and B) and two pathogen species (species C and D). Pathogen C is a specialist on species A, and pathogen D is a specialist on species B. An increase in the density of species D would lead to ________ of species C. If a scientist didn't know about the two mutualist species, he or she might think the pathogens were ______.

a decrease; competitors

a decrease; mutualists

an increase; competitors

an increase; mutualists

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