A79-year-old male resident of a long-term care facility has contracted clostridium difficile and is experiencing consequent diarrhea. auscultation of the man's abdomen indicates hyperactive bowel sounds. what process in the man's small intestine is most likely accompanying his current status? a. inflammation is accompanied by an increase in peristaltic movements of his small intestine. b. intestinal stasis brought on by infection is preventing his small intestine from sufficiently slowing the rate of motility. c. segmentation waves have become more frequent as a result of his infection. d. pathogenic microorganisms are causing dilation of his small intestine, increasing motility.

answer: decrease

a limiting factor is the one which decrease the abundance, distribution and causes extinction of the population of species in a ecosystem. here, predators including hawks, owls and snakes are the limiting factor for the population of mexican free tailed bat.   although bats are nocturnal animals as they forge for food at night these predators also may remain active during night which can decrease the population of the mexican free-tailed bats. also, these bats eat only one type of insects that are moths. the food can also be a limiting factor as all 400 members are dependent upon same type of food needs that are moths. the decrease in the moth population can cause decrease in population size of the mexican free-tailed bats.

therefore, the scenarios will most likely to decrease the population size of the mexican free-tailed bats.