If a population (e.g., reindeer population) is allowed to grow in a predator free environment, the population grows beyond carrying capacity and there occurs population crash due to sudden shortage of food. Such growth curves also occur ininsect populations during rainy season, and in Algal blooms. The exponential growth stops abruptly as the environmental resistance or another limiting factor becomes effective.
Tho population of an insect species shows an explosive increase in numbers during rainy season followed by its disappearance at the end of the…
NEET UG 2007 — Zoology Organisms and Populations
Tho population of an insect species shows an explosive increase in numbers during rainy season followed by its disappearance at the end of the season. What does this show?
Held on 30 Apr 2007 · Verified 9 Jul 2026.
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- A
the food plants mature and die at the end of the rainy season
- B
its population growth curve is of J-type
- C
the population of its predators increases enormously
- D
S-shaped or sigmoid growth of this insect.
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