Q4.19. Roads often decrease dispersal rates for animals and can divide patches in two. How might these consequences of building roads affect the survival of a metapopulation?

A. Roads should generally increase metapopulation survival by dividing patches and thereby creating more potential populations.
B. Roads should generally increase metapopulation survival by reducing dispersal, which increases survival of individual patches.
C. Roads should generally decrease metapopulation survival by reducing dispersal, which decreases recolonization of patches.
D. Roads should generally decrease metapopulation survival by dividing patches, which increases immigration rates.