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Biology
Chapter
5
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Characteristics of Populations
• Geographic Distribution – the area inhabited by a population
• Population Density – number of individuals per unit area
• Growth Rate – an increase or decrease of the number of individuals in a population over time
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Population Growth/Decline
• A population can grow when its birthrate is greater than its death rate
• Immigration – movement of individuals into an area
• Populations can increase
• Animals maybe searching for mates or food
• Emigration – movement of individuals out of an area
• Populations can decrease
• Animals leave to find mates or food
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• Exponential Growth
• Under ideal conditions with unlimited resources a population will grow exponentially resulting in a population explosion
• Exponential growth is characterized by a J-shaped curve
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• In nature exponential growth does not continue in a population for very long
• As resources become less available, the growth of a population slows or stops
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Exponential Growth
Exponential Growth
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• Logistic Growth
• Occurs when a population’s growth slows or stops following a period of exponential growth
• Logistic growth is characterized by a S-shaped curve
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Copyright Pearson Prentice HallFig. 46.6, p. 818
initial carrying capacity
new carrying capacity
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• What prevents the world from being overrun with all kinds of living things?
• Carrying Capacity – the number of organisms of one species that an environment can support
• When a population reaches the carrying capacity of its environment, its growth levels off
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Limiting Factors
• Limiting Factor – a factor that causes population growth to decrease
• Density-Dependent Factors – a limiting factor that depends on population size
• These factors operate most strongly when a population is large and dense
• As populations increase so do these factors
• Example: competition, predation, parasitism, disease
• Density-Independent Factor – a limiting factor that affects all populations regardless of the population size
• Example: natural disasters, storms, floods, drought, pollution
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• Demography – the study of human population growth
• For most of human existence, the population grew slowly
• Limiting factors kept population sizes low
• About 500 years age, the human population began growing more rapidly
• Life was made easier and safer by advances in agriculture and industry
• Death rates were dramatically reduced due to improved sanitation, medicine, and healthcare, while birthrates remained high
• With these advances, the human population experienced exponential growth
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Historical OverviewHuman Population Growth
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• Age Structure
• Age-Structure Diagrams – show the population of a country broken down by gender and age group
• Population growth depends, in part, on how many people of different ages make up a given population
• Demographers can predict future growth using age-structure diagrams
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Patterns of Population Growth
Rapid
Growth
Slow
Growth
Zero
Growth
Negative
Growth
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• How can you tell if a population is growing?
• If the birth rate is more than the death rate
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• Does it make a difference to population growth if the largest proportion of the population is in one age group?
• If a large percent of the population is teenagers and children there is rapid growth
• If the percent of people in each category is equal the population is stable