Population

• What is a population?

  A group of individuals of the same species in the same area
• What is a population?

  Group of taxa that is defined for research purposes
• What is biotic potential?

  Population capacity for growth

  Dependent on age structure, maturation, survivorship, and reproductive length
• What is the intrinsic rate of increase? (Biotic Potential)

  Rate of population growth if a species had unlimited resources
• What is the carrying capacity? (Environmental Resistance)

  Maximum population of a species that a habitat can sustain without harm
• Population density?

  Population individuals in an area
• Density dependent factors?

  Biotic factors

  Disease, starvation, conflicts
• Density independent factors?

  Abiotic

  Weather and celestial impacts
• K-species?

  Occupy new habitats, work on limited resources

  Often exceed K species
• Trivial Movement?

  Movement within home range of an insect population
• What the Gypsy moth moved with dispersal?

  Yes