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Not all populations grow exponentially; otherwise, a bacteria culture in a petri dish would grow unbounded and soon be m
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Not all populations grow exponentially; otherwise, a bacteria culture in a petri dish would grow unbounded and soon be m
Not all populations grow exponentially; otherwise, a bacteria culture in a petri dish would grow unbounded and soon be much larger than the size of the laboratory. To see what happens if there are limiting factors to population growth, let us consider the population of fish in a children's trout pond. The number of trout will be limited by the available resources, food supply, and spawning habitat. A small population of fish might grow exponentially if the pond is large and food is abundant, but the growth rate will decline as the population increases and the availability of resources declines. We can use the logistic equation to model population growth in a resource limited environment. An artificial lake was established by putting F fish for the first time. The capacity of the lake is C fish. To analyze their growth find