.......How long will it take for those populations to return back to previous levels......
You have made an unwarranted assumption. You have assumed the previous level was normal or perhaps correct. You did not state the time considered previous.....preKatrina, post Katrina, precivil war, pre DDT abolition, post
DDT Abolition?
Since levels are continuously variable, it doesn’t matter any way. An absence will be quickly filled by individuals looking for a better plce.
“You have made an unwarranted assumption. You have assumed the previous level was normal or perhaps correct”
Pre-oil spill, pretty obvious from the context of the thread.
“An absence will be quickly filled by individuals looking for a better plce.”
Filled with what? Millions of people are being impacted by the oil and by the economic damage. Nobody really knows the impact to the wildlife or ecosystem of the gulf. The various dead carcasses on the beach are most likely only a fraction of the real numbers.