Your senior thesis project involves working out the taxonomy of Florida skinks. To accomplish this you examine skink specimens for morphological differences compare nucleotide and amino acid sequences and observe the skinks reproductive behavior and habitat types. Once you have completed the taxonomy and written the thesis you give it to your professor for comments. She tells you that you did a great job and should try to get your work published. However she suggests you indicate in the introduction what species concepts you used to make your classifications. What statement would you add

I will add the following statement:

Taxonomic determinations were made based on the general lineage species concept.

Explanation:

Taxonomic determinations show inferred evolutionary relationships in the form of multiple branching lineages connected by nodes.  So, the sequences can easily be identified at the end of branches. And these taxonomic determinations were made based on the general lineage species concept.

Hence, I will add the following statement:

Taxonomic determinations were made based on the general lineage species concept.

answer: decrease

a limiting factor is the one which decrease the abundance, distribution and causes extinction of the population of species in a ecosystem. here, predators including hawks, owls and snakes are the limiting factor for the population of mexican free tailed bat.   although bats are nocturnal animals as they forge for food at night these predators also may remain active during night which can decrease the population of the mexican free-tailed bats. also, these bats eat only one type of insects that are moths. the food can also be a limiting factor as all 400 members are dependent upon same type of food needs that are moths. the decrease in the moth population can cause decrease in population size of the mexican free-tailed bats.

therefore, the scenarios will most likely to decrease the population size of the mexican free-tailed bats.