The lynx is a predatory cat that depends on the snowshoe hare for food. Review the trend in the graph. What happens when the population of one species changes? What does this trend say about the interdependence of these two species?
a graphical representation of snowshoe hare and lynx populations over 70 years
When the population of the snowshoe hare decreases it lessens the food for the lynx. The lynx depends on the snoweshoe hare and the hare depends on grass, which comes for nutrients usually dead animals that the lynx make leave.
