For example, in the right hand graph of Figure 2 is a population of Paramecium growing in a laboratory culture. The pattern of growth is very close to the pattern of the exponential equation.

Population ecology is the study of how populations — of plants, animals, and other organisms — change over time and space and interact with their environment. Populations are groups of ...

In the 1920s, two mathematicians working on separate continents proposed the same set of mathematical equations for describing population growth and decline in biological systems. Alfred Lotka ...