BIOL 121 Lecture : Bio 121 Population Ecology.docx

• School: UBC
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 121
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Focuses on how the numbers of individuals in a population(a group of the same species that lives in the same area at the same time)change over time. This is a boom-bust cycle whose population size reaches a maximum then decreases as time goes by. Occurs when the innate capacity for increase does not change over time. n=population number t=time. The population size increases rapidly for a period of time then levels off at a point k(maximum carrying capacity). From there, the number of deaths and births are equal.