As long as you are referring to the green plants aka producers of the food chain/web.
Rarefaction in terms of ecology can be defined as a technique used to assess species richness from the results of sampling.
It allows the calculation of richness of a particular species for a given number of individual samples, and these are based on the construction of rarefaction curves.
Hence, the correct answer is: option A-Creating a representative sample
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The answer is A, delta.
I know this because i had this on USATestPrep and got it correct :D