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A forest area is belag used for a new housing development. Most of the trees have been removed to make room for
the new houses, Predict the impact that this will have on the birds in the area.
The bird populations will stay the same because humans love birds,
The bird populations will decrease because humans see them as pests.
y The bird populations will increase because humans do not interfere with wild animals.
The bird populations will decrease due to competition for resources such as food and nesting sites.

Ecological succession can be defined as the process by which the biological structure of a community, i.e., the group of interacting populations of species that occupy a particular area, changes over time. Human activities such as, for example, deforestation in order to develop an urban ecosystem, can dramatically alter the process of succession and literally destroy the natural balance of biological communities. In this case, it is expected that human activities have a negative impact on bird populations by increasing intra and interspecific competence with other organisms for limited resources (i.e., food and nesting sites).