BIO205H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: California Quail, Exponential Growth, Protist
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Intrinsic growth rate (r): the highest possible per capita growth rate for a population: figure 12. 1: the exponential growth model. Over time, a population living under ideal conditions can experience a rapid increase in population size. Each generation of new quail produced each spring is represented by a different colour. After 5 years what is the size of the population: nt=n0 t, n5=(100)(1. 5)5. = 759: n=n0( t-1) the change in population between time intervals, comparing the exponential and geometric growth models, geometric and exponential growth are related by. = er: when this relationship is graphed, we can come to some conclusions, figure 12. 3. Comparing the growth of populations using the exponential and geometric growth models. Exponential model uses continuous data and geometric model uses discrete data. Even so, the two models reveal the same increase in population size over time: figure 12. 4.
