Question

A lack of sufficient information and data of population size and growth of Atlantic cod is one of many reasons to explain the mismanagement and current decline in Atlantic cod population, Based on your understanding of logistic growth model, if one day atlantic cod recovered in Gulf of Maine, you would recommend to maintain the cod population at _______________ point of the logistic growth model at which population would show the fastest growth rate.

Answer 1

ANSWER: LOG PHASE/POINT

EXPLANATION: The log phase of logistic population growth witness the fastest growth rate. It's the phase where there is rapid growth exploiting the high resources supplied.

Moreso, the population continues to grow rapidly approaching the carrying capacity (i.e the highest population size that the resources available in the ecosystem can sustain). On getting to the carrying capacity the ecosystem can withstand, the growth rate adjusts and move inline with the carrying capacity. It's also referred as exponential phase.