Limiting factors for snakes can include frogs, grasshoppers, farmers, pesticides, weather, climate, the environment, and various other abiotic and biotic factors.
Those specified however were also specified within the prompt. These are limiting factors because they can limit or help excel the snake population growth, yet in this prompt it is shown to greatly diminish the growth.
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It is important because the results would not be reliable since other variables you are not testing could have been in affect.
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