Why do islands often make good "laboratories" for studying the mechanisms of extinction?

a. Island species tend to be especially resilient to extinction.
b. Islands tend to harbor endemic species.
c. Island populations of a species are good representatives of the same species' continental popu-lations.
d. Biological communities of islands are less complex than the biological communities of conti-nents.
e. B and D,


E

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