Select the correct option for the Direct Speech conversion of the sentence below. The ecologist cautioned that the region’s carrying capacity might be surpassed if invasive organisms multiplied without control.

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1. Identify the reported clause: **"that the region’s carrying capacity might be surpassed if invasive organisms multiplied without control."**

2. In direct speech, keep the modal **"might"** because the warning stays about possibility.

3. Change the past verb **"multiplied"** back to present **"multiply"** for the real conditional: **"if invasive organisms multiply without control."**

4. Option (c) matches the meaning and tenses exactly.

FINAL_ANSWER: c

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