Largely _______ the funding pressures that can tempt salaried field biologists to favor striking results over routine ones, the many volunteers who tally and photograph birds at their backyard feeders each winter tend to record what they see-however unremarkable-with a candor that paid surveys cannot always match.

Blank (i)
A. beholden to
B. conversant with
C. emblematic of
D. unswayed by
E. inured to