BI111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 44: Intraspecific Competition, Generalist And Specialist Species, Population Ecology
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The specific environment in which it lives, as characterized by its biotic and abiotic features. Age structure a statistical description of the relative numbers of individuals in each age class. The average time between the birth of an organism and the birth of its. The relative proportions of males and females (number of females has a bigger impact on population growth than males) Demography the statistical study of the processes that change a population"s size and density through time. Cohort a group of individuals of similar age. Includes the lifetime patterns of growth, maturation, and reproduction (studied to understand tradeoffs in the allocation of resources to these three activities) The maximum number of individuals that an environment can support indefinitely (represented by variable k) The dependence of two or more individuals in a population on the same limiting resource. Species that often have large numbers of small young. Species that usually have small numbers of larger young r-selected.
