ENVS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Biological Dispersal, Unified Modeling Language, Life Table
10 Apr 2019
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Define a population: a group of individuals of a single species inhabiting a specific area (user defined, ecologists study localized individuals that are a fraction of a population) Explain the basic characteristics of population: distribution range, density abundance, per unit area, dynamics factors that influence size & structure, age, immigration, emigration, population. Population abundance and distribution in the context of time and space: edge: not always persistent through space and time. Define the concept of biological dispersal (hard to get empirical data: movements of individuals (usually in the context of young i. e. turtles) Age structure diagram: a measure of the relative ages of different individuals within a population. Generation time: the length of time between the birth of one generation and the birth of the next has important consequences for populations.
