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U.S. Department of Agriculture

animal density

Definition: In biology, populations are groups of individuals belonging to the same species that live in the same region at the same time. Animal density is a measure of the number of organisms that make up a population in a defined area.
Definition Source: AWIC staff
Spanish: densidad animal

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