A Scientist Has Assessed the Minimum Viable Population of the Helmeted

A scientist has assessed the minimum viable population of the Helmeted Honeyeater (Lichenostomus melanops cassidix) in the national park. However, two years after the completion of this work, analysis reveals that the population is fragmented within the national park and breeding is only occurring within very small sub-populations. This impact on a species's likelihood of extinction is known as

A) a molecular meta-bottleneck.
B) nucleic plasticity.
C) genetic stochasticity.
D) transcriptional decoupling.
E) demographic contingent.

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