Question

Snowshoe hare and Canadian lynx live in the boreal forest of Canada. The snowshoe hare is the main prey species of the Canadian lynx. They usually live 1 to 2 years and have four to six offspring at one time. The Canadian lynx is a large cat, which lives up to 15 years and has one to four cubs each year. Which population would be most likely to undergo LOGISTIC growth if conditions for them improved?

Answer 1

The hare population would most likely undergo logistic growth.

Step-by-step explanation:

If conditions for them improved, the hare population would undergo an exponential growth. Then the lynx population would rise to match the exponentially growing numbers of hare. They would eat more hare and populations would stabilize at carry capacity limit.

Their populations fluctuate, one after the other, in a predictable way: when the snowshoe hare population increases, the lynx population tends to rise.