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QUESTION 3 What are two specific factors that may affect carrying capacity causing the decrease in the lynx population? TT T Arial3 (12pt) T- Path: QUESTION 4 Often the prey population increases until they have consumed all available food. What type of population growth is pictured he Hares (x1000)

Answer 1

Two factors that are responsible for decreasing the carrying capacity of lynx are-

1. The intensive cutting of forests and the proliferation of forest roads, together with the development and use of firearms,

2. The main prey of lynx is the snowshoe hare. The lynx is so dependent on this prey that their populations fluctuate with a periodic plunge in snowshoe hare numbers that occurs about every ten years. Thus reducing the number of snowshoe hare affects and decrease the carrying capacity of Lynx.