Question

A researcher knows the geographic range of a population of butterflies. given only this information, what else can she deduce about this butterfly population?

Answer 1

A geographic range of an animal can give us a lot of information, for example:

- the climatic conditions it adapted to: does it like wet or a dry environment? Does it like heat?
-the parasites/predators that these butterflies may encounter - by knowing who else lives in that area, we can guess what can threaten the butterflies
-similarly, we can guess what food is available to the butterflies.