ap bio chapter 53
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LECTURE PRESENTATIONS
For CAMPBELL BIOLOGY, NINTH EDITION Jane B. Reece, Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Robert B. Jackson
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Lectures by
Erin Barley
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Population Ecology
Chapter 53
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Concept 53.1: Dynamic biological
processes influence population density,
dispersion, and demographics
• A population is a group of individuals of a single
species living in the same general area
• Populations are described by their boundaries and
size
• Population ecology is the study of populations in
relation to environment, including environmental
influences on density and distribution, age
structure, and population size
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Density and Dispersion
• Density is the number of individuals per unit area
or volume
• Dispersion is the pattern of spacing among
individuals within the boundaries of the population
(1-2)
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Density: A Dynamic Perspective
• In most cases, it is impractical or impossible to
count all individuals in a population
• Sampling techniques can be used to estimate
densities and total population sizes
• Population size can be estimated by either
extrapolation from small samples, an index of
population size (e.g., number of nests), or the
mark-recapture method
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• Mark-recapture method
– Scientists capture, tag, and release a random
sample of individuals (s) in a population
– Marked individuals are given time to mix back into
the population
– Scientists capture a second sample of individuals
(n), and note how many of them are marked (x)
– Population size (N) is estimated by (apply to 3)
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sn
x N
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• Density is the result of an interplay between
processes that add individuals to a population and
those that remove individuals
• Immigration is the influx of new individuals from
other areas
• Emigration is the movement of individuals out of
a population
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Figure 53.3
Births Deaths
Immigration Emigration
Births and immigration add individuals to a population.
Deaths and emigration remove individuals from a population.
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Patterns of Dispersion
• Environmental and social factors influence spacing
of individuals in a population
• In a clumped dispersion, individuals aggregate in
patches
• A clumped dispersion may be influenced by
resource availability and behavior (5 visualized on
next slide)
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Video: Flapping Geese (Clumped)
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Figure 53.4 (a) Clumped
(b) Uniform
(c) Random
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• A uniform dispersion is one in which individuals
are evenly distributed
• It may be influenced by social interactions such as
territoriality, the defense of a bounded space
against other individuals
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Video: Albatross Courtship (Uniform)
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• In a random dispersion, the position of each
individual is independent of other individuals
• It occurs in the absence of strong attractions or
repulsions
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Video: Prokaryotic Flagella
(Salmonella typhimurium) (Random)
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Demographics
• Demography is the study of the vital statistics of a
population and how they change over time
• Death rates and birth rates are of particular
interest to demographers (6)
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Life Tables
• A life table is an age-specific summary of the
survival pattern of a population
• It is best made by following the fate of a cohort, a
group of individuals of the same age
• The life table of Belding’s ground squirrels reveals
many things about this population
– For example, it provides data on the proportions
of males and females alive at each age (7)
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Table 53.1a
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Table 53.1b
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Survivorship Curves
• A survivorship curve is a graphic way of
representing the data in a life table
• The survivorship curve for Belding’s ground
squirrels shows a relatively constant death rate
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Figure 53.5
Males
Females
1,000
100
10
1
Age (years)
Nu
mb
er
of
su
rviv
ors
(lo
g s
ca
le)
0 2 4 6 8 10
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• Survivorship curves can be classified into three
general types
– Type I: low death rates during early and middle
life, then an increase in death rates among older
age groups
– Type II: the death rate is constant over the
organism’s life span
– Type III: high death rates for the young, then a
slower death rate for survivors (8 Explained here
visualized next slide)
• Many species are intermediate to these curves
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Figure 53.6
1,000
III
II
I
100
10
1 100 50 0
Percentage of maximum life span
Nu
mb
er
of
su
rviv
ors
(lo
g s
ca
le)
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Reproductive Rates
• For species with sexual reproduction,
demographers often concentrate on females in a
population
• A reproductive table, or fertility schedule, is an
age-specific summary of the reproductive rates in
a population
• It describes reproductive patterns of a population
(10)
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Table 53.2
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Concept 53.2: The exponential model
describes population growth in an idealized,
unlimited environment
• It is useful to study population growth in an
idealized situation
• Idealized situations help us understand the
capacity of species to increase and the conditions
that may facilitate this growth
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Per Capita Rate of Increase
• If immigration and emigration are ignored, a
population’s growth rate (per capita increase)
equals birth rate minus death rate (11)
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Change in population
size Births
Immigrants entering
population Deaths
Emigrants leaving
population
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• The per capita rate of interest (r) is given by
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r b m
• Zero population growth (ZPG) occurs when the
birth rate equals the death rate (r 0) (13)
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Exponential Growth
• Exponential population growth is population
increase under idealized conditions (13)
• This might occur with rebounding or newly
introduced populations. (15)
• Under these conditions, the rate of increase is at
its maximum, denoted as rmax
• The equation of exponential population growth is
(Skip 14, but know that exponential growth= J
shaped curve)
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dN dt
rmaxN
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Concept 53.3: The logistic model describes
how a population grows more slowly as it
nears its carrying capacity
• Exponential growth cannot be sustained for long in
any population
• A more realistic population model limits growth by
incorporating carrying capacity
• Carrying capacity (K) is the maximum population
size the environment can support
• Carrying capacity varies with the abundance of
limiting resources (16 and 17 from thinking)
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The Logistic Growth Model
• In the logistic population growth model, the per
capita rate of increase declines as carrying
capacity is reached (18)
• The logistic model starts with the exponential
model and adds an expression that reduces per
capita rate of increase as N approaches K
dN dt
(K N)
K rmax N
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Table 53.3
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• The logistic model of population growth produces
a sigmoid (S-shaped) curve (Skip 19 and 20, but
know that logistic growth=S shaped curve)
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Number of generations
Population growth begins slowing here.
Exponential growth
Logistic growth
Po
pu
lati
on
siz
e (
N)
0 5 15 10
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
K = 1,500
dN
dt = 1.0N
dN
dt = 1.0N
1,500 – N
1,500 ( )
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• K-selection, or density-dependent selection,
selects for life history traits that are sensitive to
population density
• r-selection, or density-independent selection,
selects for life history traits that maximize
reproduction (21)
• Think of examples for the 2 extremes.
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Concept 53.4: Life history traits are products
of natural selection
• An organism’s life history comprises the traits that affect its schedule of reproduction and survival
– The age at which reproduction begins
– How often the organism reproduces
– How many offspring are produced during each reproductive cycle
• Life history traits are evolutionary outcomes reflected in the development, physiology, and behavior of an organism (22-23)
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Evolution and Life History Diversity
• Species that exhibit semelparity, or big-bang
reproduction, reproduce once and die
• Species that exhibit iteroparity, or repeated
reproduction, produce offspring repeatedly
• Highly variable or unpredictable environments
likely favor big-bang reproduction, while
dependable environments may favor repeated
reproduction (24 and 25 from thinking)
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“Trade-offs” and Life Histories
• Organisms have finite resources, which may lead
to trade-offs between survival and reproduction
– For example, there is a trade-off between survival
and paternal care in European kestrels
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Figure 53.13
Male Female
RESULTS
Reduced brood size
Normal brood size
Enlarged brood size
Pare
nts
su
rviv
ing
th
e f
oll
ow
ing
w
inte
r (%
)
100
80
60
40
20
0
(26)
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Concept 53.5: Many factors that regulate
population growth are density dependent
• There are two general questions about regulation
of population growth
– What environmental factors stop a population
from growing indefinitely?
– Why do some populations show radical
fluctuations in size over time, while others remain
stable?
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Population Change and Population Density
• In density-independent populations, birth rate
and death rate do not change with population
density
• In density-dependent populations, birth rates fall
and death rates rise with population density
• Think about factors that would cause density
dependent and independent regulation (27)
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When population density is low, b > m. As a result, the population grows until the density reaches Q.
When population density is high, m > b, and the population shrinks until the density reaches Q.
Equilibrium density (Q)
Density-independent death rate (m)
Density-dependent birth rate (b)
Population density
Bir
th o
r d
ea
th r
ate
p
er
ca
pit
a
Figure 53.15
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Mechanisms of Density-Dependent
Population Regulation
• Density-dependent birth and death rates are an
example of negative feedback that regulates
population growth (28)
• Density-dependent birth and death rates are
affected by many factors, such as competition for
resources, territoriality, disease, predation, toxic
wastes, and intrinsic factors
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Competition for Resources
• In crowded populations, increasing population
density intensifies competition for resources and
results in a lower birth rate
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Toxic Wastes
• Accumulation of toxic wastes can contribute to
density-dependent regulation of population size
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Predation
• As a prey population builds up, predators may
feed preferentially on that species
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Intrinsic Factors
• For some populations, intrinsic (physiological)
factors appear to regulate population size
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Territoriality
• In many vertebrates and some invertebrates,
competition for territory may limit density
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Disease
• Population density can influence the health and
survival of organisms
• In dense populations, pathogens can spread more
rapidly
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Population Dynamics
• The study of population dynamics focuses on
the complex interactions between biotic and
abiotic factors that cause variation in population
size
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Stability and Fluctuation
• Long-term population studies have challenged the
hypothesis that populations of large mammals are
relatively stable over time
• Both weather and predator population can affect
population size over time
– For example, moose on Isle Royale collapsed
during a harsh winter, and when wolf numbers
peaked
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Wolves Moose
Year
Nu
mb
er
of
wo
lves
Nu
mb
er
of
mo
os
e
1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005
50
40
30
20
10
0
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
Figure 53.18 (30….Just understand biotic and abiotic factors can
influence population sizes)
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Snowshoe hare
Lynx
Year
1850 1875 1900 1925
Nu
mb
er
of
hare
s
(th
ou
san
ds)
Nu
mb
er
of
lyn
x
(th
ou
san
ds)
160
120
80
40
0
9
6
3
0
Figure 53.19
(Skip
31)
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Figure 53.22
The Plague
Hu
ma
n p
op
ula
tio
n (
billi
on
s)
8000
BCE
4000
BCE
2000
CE
1000
BCE
2000
BCE
3000
BCE
1000
CE
0
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
(32)
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• The global population is more than 6.8 billion
people
• Though the global population is still growing, the
rate of growth began to slow during the 1960s
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Projected data
2009
An
nu
al
perc
en
t in
cre
ase
1950 1975 2000 2025 2050
Year
2.2
2.0
1.8
1.6
1.4
1.2
1.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
Figure 53.23
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Regional Patterns of Population Change
• To maintain population stability, a regional human
population can exist in one of two configurations
– Zero population growth =
High birth rate – High death rate
– Zero population growth =
Low birth rate – Low death rate
• The demographic transition is the move from the
first state to the second state (33)
• The demographic transition is associated with an
increase in the quality of health care and improved
access to education, especially for women
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Age Structure
• One important demographic factor in present and
future growth trends is a country’s age structure
• Age structure is the relative number of individuals
at each age
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Figure 53.24
Percent of population Percent of population Percent of population
Rapid growth
Afghanistan
Slow growth
United States
No growth
Italy
Male Male Male Female Female Female Age 85+
80–84 75–79 70–74 65–69 60–64 55–59 50–54 45–49 40–44 35–39 30–34 25–29 20–24 15–19 10–14 5–9 0–4
Age 85+
80–84 75–79 70–74 65–69 60–64 55–59 50–54 45–49 40–44 35–39 30–34 25–29 20–24 15–19 10–14
5–9 0–4
10 0 10 8 8 8 8 8 8 6 6 6 6 6 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0
(34)
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Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy
• Infant mortality and life expectancy at birth vary
greatly among developed and developing
countries but do not capture the wide range of the
human condition (35 from thinking)
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Indus- trialized
countries
Indus- trialized
countries
Less indus- trialized
countries
Less indus- trialized
countries
Infa
nt
mo
rtality
(d
eath
s p
er
1,0
00 b
irth
s)
Lif
e e
xp
ec
tan
cy (
ye
ars
)
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
80
60
40
20
0
Figure 53.25
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Global Carrying Capacity
• How many humans can the biosphere support?
• Population ecologists predict a global population
of 7.810.8 billion people in 2050
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Estimates of Carrying Capacity
• The carrying capacity of Earth for humans is
uncertain
• The average estimate is 10–15 billion
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Limits on Human Population Size
• The ecological footprint concept summarizes the
aggregate land and water area needed to sustain
the people of a nation
• It is one measure of how close we are to the
carrying capacity of Earth
• Countries vary greatly in footprint size and
available ecological capacity
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Figure 53.26
Gigajoules
> 300
150–300
50–150
10–50
< 10
(36….Nope)