How can predators influence the species richness and structure of communities?

a. Increasing the carrying capacity of their prey.
b. Destabilizing competitive interactions among their prey.
c. Increasing the population sizes of disease organisms.
d. Increasing the population sizes of their prey.
e. Reducing the population sizes of their prey.


E

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