front 1 Why is understanding the demography of species useful? | back 1 It allows us to predict future population growth and decline of species. |
front 2 What is the difference between the exponential growth model and the geometric growth model? | back 2 A model of continuous exponential growth vs comparing population sizes at regular intervals |
front 3 What are density-independent factors? Give two examples. | back 3 Factors that limit population size regardless of how dense the population is.
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front 4 What are density-dependant factors? | back 4 Factors limiting population size that are connected to the population's size. |
front 5 What is positive density dependence? What are its other names? | back 5 Also called inverse density dependence or the Allee effect, the rate of population growth increases as population density increases. |
front 6 What is negative density dependence? Give two examples. | back 6 As the rate of population growth decreases the population density increases.
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front 7 What is carrying capacity? | back 7 The maximum population size that can be supported by the environment. |