Objectives: To define and understand: –Population biology –Characteristics of...
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Objectives:• To define and understand:
– Population biology – Characteristics of populationspopulations grow
• To estimate how pop’ns grow– initially w/ unlimited resources (exponential growth) – then as resources become limited (logistic growth)
• What limits growth?
– What are patterns in survivorship?– Trade-offs between growth, reproduction and
parental care– Human population growth
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Definition of Pop’ns =
What are characteristics of the pop’n?
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How is growth rate determined?
Measuring pop’n size (N). Census/count individuals
Δ N = (Δ B - D) + (Δ I - E) survival and reproduction are key factors that determine change in N
Growth of pop’n = change in # of individuals over time; G– Must calculate birth and death rates (b & d)
– Find the rate of increase = r
– Use r to estimate pop’n growth (G) for one time period = r N
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• The biotic potential of pop’n
• Depends on:
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Age structure
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• Exponential growth implies unlimited resources• But, limits on pop’n growth exist
– Carrying capacity (= K)
– Environmental resistance
• Logistic growth; G= r N [(K-N)/K]– What happens when N > K, N = K, N < K?
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Density-dependent and density independent limiting factors:
Pop’n may temporarily increase above carrying capacityOvershoot usually followed by a dramatic crash
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Trade-off between births and density- as density increases births decrease
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• Size of pop’ns may fluctuate with regularity.• Usually caused by multiple factors• Snowshoe hare-lynx example:
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Three types of survivorship curvesType I –
Type III -
Type II –
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Trade-offs between: 1) frequency of reproduction, 2) # of
offspring, and 3) parental care. • Big-bang reproduction
• Repeated reproduction
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• Human pop’n growing exponentially
• Humans alter rate of increase; how?
• Humans alter environmental resistance; how?
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• Largest countries: China, India, U.S.
• Worldwide >6 b. today (r = 0.013) – In 2050 ~10 b?
• Rapid growth in U.S. (1.8 % annually) – b and I– U.S. 300 m (~265 m 2003); now?– 2050, ~392 m