Environmental Science 101
Limiting Factors Study Guide
After the "Limiting Factors" lecture and readings you should be able to answer and discuss the following questions.
What is the logistic model of population growth?
What is implicit in this model?
Why is this not necessarily true?
What is Intraspecific Competition?
What is Interspecific Competition?
What is meant by density-dependent population regulation factors?
What is meant by density-independent population regulation factors?
Define and explain each of the 4 main density-dependent population regulation factors.
Define and give examples of each of the 7 main density-independent population regulation factors.