What are the underlying principles of how populations change over time? Two basic principles are involved, the idea of exponential growth and its ultimate control. The basics of population ecology ...
A variable undergoing logistic growth initially grows exponentially. After some time, the rate of growth decreases and the function levels off, forming a sigmoid, or s-shaped curve. For example, an ...
Population ecology is the study of how populations — of plants, animals, and other organisms — change over time and space and interact with their environment. Populations are groups of organisms of ...