Question 29

(Multiple Choice)

Two species of sparrows are competing, and these species behave according to the Lotka‒Volterra equations. If each individual sparrow reduces the population growth rate of its own species by 0.02 per year, and it reduces the population growth rate of the other species by 0.005 per year, then the competition coefficient is


A) 0.005.
B) 0.02.
C) 0.25.
D) 0.4.

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