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Population studies notes covering - population size (population parameters, determining population sizes and population growth forms) - interactions with the environment (trophic levels and types of interactions) - community changes overtime (ecological succession and social organisation) - human populations (population growth and growth pyramids)

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Population Studies
·
grade 11
paper z

, Population Studies population ecology : Part of ecology focusing on factors
influencing
population growth forms distribution of individuals
. size ,
rate ,
growth and
Logistic (S-shaped) growth form
inside a population factors
limiting transform geometric-logistic
.



·
can

O
population size :




·
↳
popu
lation total number of Individuals
size :
&
in a
population Indirect techniques
population density : number of individuals per part of the
populatiosn tai
-
unit ②
counting only
area ↳

total sample
↳ estimate population size
-
pation
parameters :
↳ Mark and Recapture
D =

MXS
~
total and sample

r W
↳
birth
Natality Populations
number of marked individuals
9) : rate ;
number of live births 1) Area is demarcated in and sample time
↳ increase
per
thousand individuals 2) Number individuals caught counted and marked (I sample)
of ⑧ population acclimatise adapt little environmental
per year , and to ⑳ · to
resistance
no
environment
3) sample I released into the environment ; given time to mix with the population
maturity Natality > mortality
↑
sexual
reaching
·
·



b) Mortality Populations : death rate ;
number of deaths 4) second sample caught and counted ; use formula to estimate size
③ .
increase in enviramental resistance population reaches

decrease thousand individuals conditions : Carrying capacityaration




do
↳
per per year ·




mig
-
closed population with short period between samples limiting effects of dis
clear markings ora
6)
Immigration :

one-way movement of organism into that do not injure organisms or affect movement

↳ increase
an area where they become established surface area of the area
number
average X
↳
Quadrats population ofindividualsa surface
of quadrant

& capitasy
size =
area




unstable population population exceeding carrying Capacity
d) Emigration frame :
known
One-way movement of wooden ·
:
out an area to · metal or
of size Im
?

.
eg

decrease
↳
become established ·
area
organisms must be counted is demarsated and surface area determined decrease an environments carrying capacity
·
process repeated a few times mmun

limiting factors
I
·
migration Seasonal
:

flunctuation


↳litwaDezdopdatfactoar
*
Closed population (eg .
fish in dam) unaffected by G & d) reliability -

exact number of organisms in each
quadrat must be known ompetition
A
·




mining Population
predation diseases
Size
·


. · surface area
of quadrat and demarcated area must be known · decrease living space and shelter




·
be placed (suited to sessive/slow
quadict must
randomly moving organisms) and predation spread of diseases
·

method determined
by mobility
· +
size and
Density Independant factors
Growth Forms mun
Mulation
-


Direct techniques : Initial slow increase · Extreme
natural
temperature
disasters
changes +


Counting total of individuals within population
↳ Census :
&

direct contact Geometric (J-shaped) growth form
counting smaller organisms/humans
-
:


-
direct contact counting from vehicles/helicopter larger organisms :


-




Counting from aerial photographs moving organisms :

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