A wildlife biologists has adopted a number of techniques to protect the Willow Flycatcher, a bird that often nests and feeds in willows. Some techniques reflect top-down while some reflect bottom up control. Which of the following approaches demonstrates her understanding of how top-down forces affect community dynamics? A) The biologists attempts to increase food availability by reintroducing beaver. She hypothesized that beaver will raise the water table, stimulating the growth of willow, which will result in an increase in insect abundance, giving flycatchers more food.
B) Willow Flycatchers can lose eggs to squirrels, weasels, and other predators. The biologist attempts to protect nests by putting metal collars around the base of the windows that keep ground predators from climbing up to reach the nests.
C) Both approaches rely on bottom-up forces.
D) Neither approach relies on bottom up forces.