BIOL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Demographic Transition, Industrial Revolution, Logistic Function
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Learning outcomes: identify factors that affect population size, compare real population growth curves to models, explain what factors affect carrying capacity of an environment, predict changes in population size due to various abiotic or biotic factors. Readings: chapter 13: 343-355; lester brown interview world in the balance linked in week 5. Reminders: midterm friday oct 7th from 8:00 to 8:50 in your normal lecture room. A population is made up of the individuals of one species living in a given geographic area at the same time. Populations have certain attributes/characteristics of interest to population ecologists: The density or the overall size of a population. The dispersion or spacing (spatial distribution) of individuals in a population - clumped, uniform, or random. The numbers of individuals in different age classes, or sexes. The spatial distribution of individuals in a population. The size of a population changes over time due to births, deaths and movements of individuals.
