Biology / Unit 14 Bio 3573 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Tracing a Population from Exponential Onset Through Logistic Leveling, Worked
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The idea
This procedure traces one population's growth curve from initial exponential increase through logistic leveling at carrying capacity, drawing together this chapter's growth-model and limiting-factor atoms.
Where people slip
Assuming growth rate stays constant once density-dependent regulation begins is the error here — per capita growth rate falls continuously as density rises, bending an exponential trajectory into a logistic one.
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