Question

You suggest using a logistic growth model instead. Your colleague agrees, and recommends harvesting the bass population down to just under carrying capacity. Their argument is that the population will remain large and population growth will be fastest if it is harvested down to this size. A) Why is this argument incorrect

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

The error of this argument is to state that a population will remain large and increase when it is close to the carrying capacity. This is because the carrying capacity is the term that determines that a population of living beings is living in an environment that has the minimum resources for their survival, because that population has already consumed the resources. In this case, when a bass population comes close to carrying capacity, the amount of environmental resources is starting to become scarce or limited, this will cause a decrease in the size of the population, because many members of the population will not have access to the necessary resources and will die, decreasing the population. In addition, reproduction among members of the population will be reduced, which will prevent the population from remaining large, since the mortality rate will be higher than the birth rate.