Population Ecology Intro
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This document discusses population ecology and how populations change over time. It uses the example of sea otters, kelp, and sea urchins to show how their populations interact. When sea otters were hunted, the sea urchin population increased and kelp decreased, but reintroducing sea otters caused the reverse. Population size is determined by births, deaths, and movement in or out of the area. Factors like resources, space, and interactions between species influence population growth patterns.
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Age Structure: The age distribution within a population can provide insights into its growth potential and reproductive capacity. It can help in predicting future population trends.
Population Growth Models: Population ecologists use mathematical models to describe and predict population growth, such as exponential and logistic growth models.
Limiting Factors: Population growth is limited by various factors, including availability of resources, predation, competition, disease, and environmental conditions. Population ecologists study how these factors influence population dynamics.
Carrying Capacity: The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size that can be sustained by available resources without causing environmental degradation or resource depletion.
Interactions: Populations do not exist in isolation. Interactions with other species, such as predation, competition, and mutualism, are essential considerations in population ecology.
Conservation and Management: Population ecology plays a critical role in the conservation and management of endangered species and ecosystems. It helps in making informed decisions to protect and sustainably manage populations.
Research Methods: Population ecologists employ various field and laboratory techniques, including population censuses, mark and recapture studies, and modeling, to gather data and understand population dynamics.
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Population growth follows an S-shaped curve, starting slow, then increasing rapidly before leveling off. Human population growth differs in that we have altered our environment to support more people through technologies like sanitation. All populations are limited by factors like food, disease, predators, space, etc. When a population exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment, limiting factors cause deaths to exceed births until the population stabilizes below the carrying capacity. Organisms have different life history patterns like rapid reproduction seen in mosquitoes versus slow reproduction in elephants. Density-dependent factors like disease have increasing effects as populations rise while density-independent factors like storms affect populations regardless of size. Predation, competition for resources, crowding, and stress all act as
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How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdf
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Population Ecology Intro
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- 7. But now we have a new hunterā¦.
- 8. What happens to the sea otter, kelp, and sea urchins?
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- 43. -Involves more than one population -Rapid increase and decrease in populations