Ecological character displacement will tend to reduce

A. prey vulnerability to predators.
B. the intrinsic rate of population growth of a species.
C. disease virulence.
D. niche overlap between competing species.
E. the rate of escape-and-radiate coevolution


Ans: D. niche overlap between competing species.

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