Swallow bugs cause nest failures and juvenile mortality. As colony size increases, the costs to cliff swallows are

a. increased juvenile mortality.
b. decreased juvenile mortality.
c. decrease in the number of unhatched eggs.
d. a change in daily survival probability.


A

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