When would it always make the most sense for an ecologist to use sampling?
when the population is small
when a population lives in the water
when the population is spread out
when a population is easy to count
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When the population is spread out. Sampling is most useful when it is difficult or impossible to count every individual in a population, so when a population is spread out, using sampling allows the ecologist to gather data on a representative subset of the population without needing to count every single individual.
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