The scientific study of short- and long-term changes in the size and age composition of populations and the processes driving these changes.
Questions tagged [population-dynamics]
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How many organisms have ever lived on Earth?
I've looked for some information on this, but couldn't find anything useful. Has there been any noteworthy attempt to estimate the sum amount of individuals of all species that have ever lived on Earth?
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Population Dynamics problem concerning Allee Effect
I am reading Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos with Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering, 2nd Ed. (Strogatz 2015). I came across a problem involving the Allee Effect which I have not been able to solve.
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Does someone know of a website that keeps track of a species population?
I am planning on doing some math on population growth, but I need a reliable source of data on population growth of some species over time. Does anyone know of a resource (website/publications/public repository) that has such information?
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Two state exponential growth model
I want to write an expression to model exponential growth of a microbe that scholastically and irreversibly acquires a mutation at a fixed rate that slows growth.
I can do it iteratively, but am curious whether a simple expression can be written.
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