Question

Use this description to answer the following question. A variety of plants and animals live in a forest dominated by pine trees. Pine trees are important to maintaining the soil characteristics in the forest and a habitat for many birds. A pine bark beetle from Europe is infecting the pine trees and causing many of them to get sick and die. In addition, a new tree called privet, has started taking over where other understory trees usually grow. It is able to overtake the local understory trees, such as the Yaupon holly, and the holly population is declining. What would you call the Yaupon

Answer 1

holly
A. An endangered species
B. An alien species
C. A native species
D. An indicator species