My understanding is that there’s a relationship between the food source and the number of animals that consume it, so as the food supply increases, the number of animals that consume that food also increases.
I’ve heard for years (more like decades), that “it’s a bad year for ticks” and “the number of ticks are on the rise.” Where are the opossums and other predators that eat ticks? Shouldn’t there be a ton of them by now, or are there actually just a normal amount of ticks, and my information sources are wrong (word of mouth, and tv news).
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Only if the limiting factor on population was food source as opposed to say, predation or limited habitat AND if the predator in question can reproduce quickly enough to respond to fluctuations. Predators will lag years behind prey even if the prey are what’s limiting their population growth.
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