Skip to main content

Tracing a Population from Exponential Onset Through Logistic Leveling, Worked

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

State

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.

Watch for

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.