The correct option is 1) Density-dependent.
The major causing for the decline in the caribou population are the hunting, disease, diminished food availability, and climate change.
Caribou depends on the food and habitat resources of the Arctic ecosystem which has been destroyed by the human disturbance.
Increasing number of other large carnivores also impacted the population of the caribou.
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