Question

In a population exhibiting logistic growth, what happens when the carrying capacity is exceeded? the growth rate becomes zero until the population is back within the carrying capacity. the growth rate becomes negative until the population is back within the carrying capacity. the population fluctuates around the new level. the population's fertility drops to zero. the population crashes and becomes extinct.

Answer 1

The growth rate becomes negative until the population is back within the carrying capacity.

Just because the carrying capacity is exceeded does not mean all the organisms go extinct. They slowly start to die down until the population reaches a number the environment can sustain.