No, rabbits do not typically inbreed to maintain their population size. Inbreeding can lead to genetic problems and health issues in the offspring. Instead, rabbits usually reproduce with unrelated individuals to ensure genetic diversity and healthier offspring.
A population of rabbits would be expected to have greater biomass due to their lower trophic level position and larger population size compared to the population of foxes, which occupy a higher trophic level and have a smaller population size.
The lynxes eat rabbits, so their effect is to reduce the rabbit population.
directional selection
Rabbits can be 9 inches to 2 feet.
For the lynx, the answer is obvious. It gets fed. For the rabbit, its not so obvious. It comes down to survival of the fittest. Rabbits reproduce quite quickly. The lynx actually helps the species by eating the slower, sicker, older rabbits first. This allows stronger genetics to stay in the rabbits gene pool.
Size small, alternatively tiny
like a rabbits
no
It depends on its species and size. Tiny rabbits have tiny ears.
A flood that washes away many rabbits exemplifies a density-dependent effect on population growth. This type of effect occurs when the impact on the population is related to its density; as the rabbit population increases, resources become scarcer, making them more vulnerable to environmental stresses like flooding. The flood leads to a sudden decline in population size, demonstrating a natural check on population growth.
What size? Please be more deatailed
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