What may cause a population to temporarily overshoot its carrying capacity?%0D%0A a%0D%0Aan increase in predators%0D%0A b%0D%0Aan increase in emigration%0D%0A c%0D%0Aa reproductive time lag%0D%0A d%0D%0Aa decrease in birth rates
c. a reproductive time lag
When individuals in a population reproduce at a faster rate than the resources available to sustain them, there can be a temporary overshoot of the carrying capacity. This is because there is a delay in the response of the population to changes in resource availability, leading to an initial period of rapid population growth before stabilizing or declining.