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    How fast is the whooping crane population growing? Total population = 22 in early 1940s; now 599 (11 / 12) 280 240 Data on Whooping Cranes (wood buffalo national park-aransas nwr) How can we express population growth on a per capita basis? Use r to symbolize the per capita growth rate r= = er (this is a fundamental relationship between finite rates and instantaneous rates)

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    How fast is the whooping crane population growing? Total population = 22 in early 1940s; now 599 (11 / 12) 280 240 Data on Whooping Cranes (wood buffalo national park-aransas nwr) How can we express population growth on a per capita basis? Use r to symbolize the per capita growth rate r= = er (this is a fundamental relationship between finite rates and instantaneous rates)

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    Populationgrowth Pop lation gro th Todaysquestions: T d ti I. What is population ecology? Whatispopulationecology? II. Whatarethebasicmodelsusedtodescribe p p populationgrowth? g III. Casestudiesinpopulationgrowth A.

    .Densitydependence A. Density dependence B.Populationcycles

    I.

    Whatispopulationecology?

    Membersofthesamepopulationliveinthesamearea atthesametime h i Interbreedonaregularbasis Interbreed on a regular basis Areexposedtoasimilarenvironment/selection pressures p p Interactviaintraspecificcompetition

    II.Whatarethebasicmodelsusedtodescribe h h b d l d d b populationgrowth?
    280 240 DataonWhoopingCranes (WoodBuffaloNatlParkAransasNWR)

    2010

    Howfastisthewhoopingcranepopulationgrowing? How fast is the whooping crane population growing? Totalpopulation=22inearly1940s;now599(11/12) 3wildpopulations:20112012 WoodBuffalo278300 Floridaresident2019 WisconsinFlorida115110 Growthrate,over1year WoodBuffalo Floridaresident WisconsinFlorida Wisconsin Florida

    Generalizingtheseideas: LetN0 =populationsizeatstart N1 = population size one breeding interval later =populationsizeonebreedingintervallater ThenN1 /N0 = / isthefiniterateofincrease IntheWoodBuffaloflock,201112, = Whatis ifN1 =250? Whatis ifN1 =310? h f ?

    Rearranging:N1 =N0 g g Ingeneral,Nt =N0 t isanaggregategrowthrate,computedoverdiscrete intervals Howcanweexpresspopulationgrowthonapercapita How can we express population growth on a per capita (perindividual)basis,computedatanytime? User tosymbolizethepercapitagrowthrate r=

    = er (this is a fundamental relationship between finite =e (thisisafundamentalrelationshipbetweenfinite ratesandinstantaneousrates) WoodBuffalo = Floridaresident = Florida resident = WisconsinFlorida = r = r= = r =

    Notethatingeneral,Nt =N0 ert describesdiscrete g growth;r describes ; continuousgrowth

    Nt =N0 ert Considerwhoopingcranesagain. Consider whooping cranes again If22individualswerealivein1942and599in2012,what isr?

    Exponentialversusdensitydependentgrowth

    III.Casestudiesinpopulationgrowth III. Case studies in population growth A.Densitydependentgrowth

    What's wrong with the graph? - It doesn't follow the curve. - There's an overshoot.

    Whatdensitydependentfactor(s)constraingrowth?
    Available food. Habitat space (territorial vs. roosting) Predation. Disease: - There's a lot more individuals for a an infection to spread to in denser population (high transmission). How do we test these? -

    Howtotestthesehypotheses?

    B.Populationcycles e.g.RedgrouseinEngland;4yearcyclesinabundance Hypothesis:Thepopulationcrasheseveryfouryears becausethereisrapidtransmissionofaparasitic because there is rapid transmission of a parasitic nematodewormathighpopulationdensity. Experiment:Incrashyears,catchbirdsattheroost(at night)andadministeranantiwormmedication.

    Interpretthesegraphs

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