Follow-Up Questions: What relationship does logistic and exponential growth have?
The human population is growing exponentially, which means the Earth has a finite capacity. Explain how human ingenuity in the past 150 years has influenced this.
What effect would the loss of 4 key predator species due to human activity have on the population growth within ecosystems?
In May of 2019, the Apache National Forest in Arizona caught fire, resulting in the largest wildfire in history. At the end, it had burned more than 500,000 acres and spanned six counties. Before the disturbance, what kind of growth would the pine forest have exhibited? After the fire, what kind of growth would the plants have exhibited? In your answer, please include the shapes of the growth curves by sketching a graph for each.
Why do biotic factors that regulate population growth tend to depend on population density, and why do abiotic factors that regulate population growth tend to be independent of population density?