Mind Mapping Population Dynamics Concept

Mark and Recapture: Mobile

Quadrat: Immobile Organisms
Organisms early ages experience the highest mortality with much
lower mortality rates for organisms that make it to Type III
advanced years

Uniform
Estimating Population size mortality is relatively constant throughout the entire life Type II
span

Total number of individuals Number of individual per area Type I

mortality is low in the early and middle years and occurs
Clumped mostly in older individuals

Population Size Population Density

provide important information about the
life history of an organism and the life
expectancy of individuals at each age
Random Population: a group of individuals that belong to the Graph of the number of individuals
same species that live in the same area at the same time. surviving at each age interval versus
Life Tables time

Species Distribution Population Demographics and Dynamics Survivorship Curves

Population Growth and Regulation The Human Population

Population Dynamics
Population Growth Demographic Based Population Models Overcoming Density-Dependent Long-Term Consequences
Regulation of Exponential Human
Exponential Population Growth
Growth K-selected species
The unique ability of humans to alter
r-selected species species are adapted their environment in countless ways
Age Structure, Population
to stable, predictable which includes human intelligence, Growth, Economic
J-shape growth environments society and communication,
Development
species are adapted population growth, migration to name
Curve
to unstable and a few.
unpredictable
Logistic environments Population
Growth Intraspecific Carrying
Age structure is the proportion of a Explosion
population in different age classes.
Competition Capacity Models that incorporate age structure Stage 1: Rapid Growth
allow better prediction of population
growth, plus the ability to associate this
growth with the level of economic Stage 2: Slow Growth One Child
s-shape growth development in a region.
Population Dynamics and Regulation Curve Policy

Density-independent Stage 3: Stable Growth

Density-dependent Family Planning
regulation
regulation Stage 4: Contracting Growth Education

Physical in nature: weather, Change and

Biological in nature: predation,
natural disasters, and pollution Climate Degradation of
interspecific and intraspecific
competition, and parasites Change Natural
Environment
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