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Chapter 40, Problem 3TYU
When climbing a mountain, we can observe transitions in biological communities that are analogous to the changes
- A. in different depths in the ocean.
- B. in biomes at different latitudes.
- C. in a community through different seasons.
- D. in an ecosystem as it evolves over time.
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