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It’s 2024, and the Tyrannosaurus rex population isn’t growing as quickly as your model in Exercise #3 predicted. Your hu

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 6:35 pm
by answerhappygod
It’s 2024, and the Tyrannosaurus rex population isn’t growing as quickly as your model in Exercise #3 predicted. Your hunch is that you overestimated λ for this discretely growing population, so you dig into data left by your predecessor. Observations of T. rex on the
island have declined from 21 per transect in 1990 to 14 per transect in 2014. What is λ for this
discretely growing population?