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| 70 divided by the growth rate will give you the populations doubling time |
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| The number or biomass of animals that can be supported in a certain area of a habitat |
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| Exceeds carrying capacity, lead to population crashes |
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| Repeated overshooting and crashes |
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| As population increases, effect intensifies |
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| Employ high reproductive rate to overcome high mortality of ignored offspring. Short life, lots of offspring, early maturity etc. |
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| Conservative, growth slows as carrying capacity is approached. Long life, few offspring, late maturity etc. |
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| Production of new individuals by birth, hatching, germination or cloning. |
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| Physical ability to produce |
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| Measure of actual number of offspring |
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| Percent of cohort that lives to a certain age |
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| Number of years of survival |
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| Longest period of life reached by a given type of organism |
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| The movement of members out of a population |
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| Intrinsic Factors on Population Growth |
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| Extrinstic Factors on Population Growth |
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| Biotic Factors on Population Growth |
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| Caused by living organisms |
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| Abiotic Factors on Population Growth |
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| Diversity in isolated habitats |
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| Gradual changes in gene frequencies due to random events |
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| Founder Effect/Demographic Bottleneck |
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| Occur when just a few members of a species survive a catostrophic event |
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| Minimum Viable Population Size |
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| Number of individuals needed for long-term survival of a rare/endangered species |
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| Collection of populations that may have regular or intermittent gene flow between geographically separate units |
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