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14. Population Dynamics

Bernard Korites1  
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Duxbury, MA, USA
 

This chapter contains several programs that simulate population dynamics in population biology and ecology. It could be a population of people, whales, or aphids, any population that experiences growth that occurs in discrete steps or in a continuous process.

Sequential Growth

Program GGROWTH plots the change in size of a population that follows a sequential growth process. The change in size of the population from one generation to the next occurs in discrete steps, in a sequence, and there is no overlap between generations. The human population of the United State, for example, is not an example ...

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