Why is a pathogen generally more virulent in a new habitat?
A) More pathogens tend to immigrate into newer habitats.
B) Intermediate host species are more motile and transport pathogens to new areas.
C) Pathogens evolve more efficient forms of reproduction in new environments.
D) Hosts in new environments have not had a chance to become resistant to the pathogen through natural selection.
E) New environments are almost always smaller in area so that transmission of pathogens is easily accomplished between hosts.
The jaguar can range across a variety of forested and open habitat, but is strongly associated with
Biodiversity Depends on the Size of Habitat
Common Bacterial Pathogens
Habitat fragmentation
Type of pathogen organism
Plasmodium, a protist pathogen that causes malaria