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Q.The number of deaths when environmental pressures come into play is known as ______.

(a) absolute mortality
(b) absolute natality
(c) realized mortality
(d) realized natality
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Realized mortality is the actual number of deaths occurring in a population under the real, existing environmental conditions/pressures.

In population ecology, mortality (death rate) is described using two complementary terms: absolute (or minimum/theoretical) mortality refers to the deaths that would occur even under the most ideal conditions, purely due to old age/physiological limits, whereas realized mortality is the actual, observed number of deaths that occur in a population when it is subjected to real, prevailing environmental pressures such as predation, disease …

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