which of the following populations will experience the faste
which of the following populations will experience the fastest population growth rate?
| A population of 1000 rabbits that has a yearly death rate of 0.01 and a yearly birth rate of 0.11 |
Solution
The growth rate is calculated by: growht rate = birth rate - death rate. Here all the parameters that is initial population size (1000), death rate (0.01) and time period ( 1 year) are same the only variable is birth rate. Therefore the growth rate will be as follows:
For rabbits, growth rate = 0.11 - 0.01 = 0.1
For wolves, growth rate = 0.06 -0.01 = 0.05
For elephants, growth rate = 0.02 - 0.01 = 0.01
For blue whales growth rate = 0.01 - 0.01 = 0
Hence, the maximum growth rate (0.1) will experience by rabbits.
