All of the following about logistic growth is true except
A) Population plotted against time involves a period of rapid exponential growth followed by a period of fluctuation around the carrying capacity.
B) Population plotted against time produces a sigmoidal shaped logistic growth curve.
C) A population can overshoot its carrying capacity and decline more than one time.
D) A population may overshoot its carrying capacity because of a reproductive time lag.
E) Human populations are exempt from logistic growth because we can expand the earth's carrying capacity for the human species.
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Q2: Carrying capacity refers to
A) reproductive rate
B) interaction
Q3: Which of the following predators avoid competition
Q21: The human population of Ireland experienced a
Q23: Humans have extended Earth's carrying capacity for
Q24: Population change =
A) (Births + Deaths) -
Q26: Population size is governed by all of
Q27: Biotic potential is determined by all of
Q28: Which of the following statements about ecological
Q29: A population will increase if
A) natality decreases.
B)
Q30: Which of the following would undergo secondary
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