c.    Use the matrix you created and the population in the year 2001 to predict the population size in the year 2002.

2.     The following questions refer to Exercises 4.3 and 4.4 from the lab exercises.

a.    Show the Leslie matrix you calculated in Exercise 4.3 and the trajectory summary produced in Step 3 of Exercise 4.4.

b.     From Exercises 4.4 describe the harvesting strategy you developed in Step 6. What harvest amount stabilized the population? Why did this particular amount work?

c.     What risk of falling below 1000 individuals did you find for each of the harvesting

strategies in Step 7? How does this risk compare to not harvesting at all? If both harvesting strategies were designed to sustainably harvest the population, why is one so much riskier?

3.     List three of the assumptions that need to be made in order for population growth to occur at a rate determined by λ. What do these assumptions suggest about using λ to make conservation decisions in the real world?