ECOL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phytoremediation, Ecological Footprint, Fresh Kills Landfill

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Ecology
• Course: ECOL 1000
• Professor: J Vaun Mc Arthur

Document Summary

The evidence is that while the four horsemen of the apocalypse may have limited some local populations, not much has limited overall human exponential growth. K= the metric units of k are just n(population size) The maximum number of persons that can be supported in perpetuity on an area, with a given technology and set of consumptive habits, without causing environmental degradation . K = carrying capacity of the environment = total n supportable. Every organism on earth follows this natural law. What gravity is to physics: it is a law that cannot be broken! Population: a group of individuals who use common resources and are regulated by common bitic and abiotic factors. Exponential growth of a population is described by an exponent. 1 out of every 9 people who ever lived on the earth is alive today. Nt 0= number of individuals at the beginning of an observation period, time = 0.