lecture – populations properties estimation of size population growth
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Lecture – Populations Properties Estimation of Size Population Growth. What is a population? ‘members of a particular species that inhabit a particular area’ Various aspects: Range and distribution Size Density Age structure Growth Genetic uniqueness subpopulations (ecotype). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Lecture –
Populations
Properties
Estimation of Size
Population Growth
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What is a population?• ‘members of a particular species that
inhabit a particular area’• Various aspects:
• Range and distribution• Size• Density• Age structure• Growth• Genetic uniqueness subpopulations
(ecotype)
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Size of Populations• Abundance: number of individuals within a
specified area• Abundance/area = Density• How do we determine how many
individuals there are?• Two primary techniques:
– Capture-mark-recapture• estimate of total population = (total number
captured (second time) x number marked) / (total number recaptured with mark)
– sampling
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• Estimation of population sizes• Choice of technique depends on
– motility of target species– Nature of habitat– Resources– Resolution required– Generally rely on statistical sampling /various
assumptions
• http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/monmanual/approaches/popsize.htm
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Population growth rate:
• Discrete-time– Geometric growth
• Species which have discrete breeding seasons
• Continuous time– Exponential growth
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• Growth rate = dN/dt = rN No. of individuals in a population
Intrinsic rate of increase
Change over time
• The actual rate of population increase is
• r = (b – d) + (i – e)
Birthrate Deathrate Net immigration
Net emigration
• Geometric Growth:• N(t+1) = N(t) λ : at each interval of time population grows
by the multiple λ
• Exponential Population growth
• logeλ = r
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• Geometric Growth – with discrete reproductive seasons
• Estimate population at same time in each year– Mortality of young
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Slope (at any point) = dN/dt = rN
Log population size increasing exponential against time produces
straight line
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Logistic Population Growth
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• No matter how fast populations grow, they eventually reach a limit– This is imposed by shortages of important
environmental factors• Nutrients, water, space, light
• The carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals that an area can support– It is symbolized by k
Carrying Capacity
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• As resources are depleted, population growth rate slows and eventually stops: logistic population growth.
– Sigmoid (S-shaped) population growth curve.
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= rN(1-N/K)
Growth slows as N approaches value of
K or as (1-N/K) approaches 0
• dN/dt = rN K – NK
( )
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Limits to Population Growth
• Environment limits population growth by altering birth and death rates.
– Density-dependent factors
• Disease, Resource competition
– Density-independent factors
• Natural disasters
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Density-dependent effects• Competition for resources
– food– Suitable habitat – example: nesting sites– Effects that are dependent on population size and act to
regulate growth
• These effects have an increasing effect as population size increases
Song sparrow
Reproductive success decreases as population size
increases
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• Density-independent effects– Effects that are independent of population size
but still regulate growth• Most are aspects of the external environment
–Weather»Droughts, storms, floods
–Physical disruptions»Fire, road construction
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Where is a species found?• Range: Geographical boundaries a
species occupies– Determined by basic ecological parameters– No indication of distribution or abundance
• Fundamental niche:– Indication of parts of habitat in which a
species may be found– Typically patchy locally aggregated) w/i range
• Realized niche: – Portion of fundamental niche in which species
is actually found
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Factors which impact range:• Physiological adaptations• Available food, nesting sites, etc. – factors which
define suitable habitat• Predators• Competition – competitive exclusion principle –
to be discussed later• Chance – past climatic and physiological events
– Species could/does survive elsewhere, has not been introduced
• Current and past climate influences all these things
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Example: • Range of Canyon Wren• Distribution:• ‘confined to areas with rock
faces’, canyons, bluffs
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• Fundamental niche:– Indication of parts of habitat in which a
species may be found– Typically patchy locally aggregated) w/i range
• Realized niche: – Portion of fundamental niche in which species
is actually found
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Patchiness and Subpopulations• Metapopulations – Local Populations (demes) in
suitable habitat isolated in matrix of unsuitable habitat
• Source/Sink Populations – source population over-reproduces, sink absorbs population
• Landscape – Metapopulations linked in matrix of varied quality
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• Marmots on Vancouver Island• Unique species – isolated populations in cleared
areas – impacted by fire/forestry practices• Loss of local populations results in fewer
‘stepping stones’ – genetically isolated metapopulations– Loss in genetic diversity– Movement between populations maintains variability
within species– Important to continued viability of species
• From: http://www.marmots.org/notes_vim.html
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Ecotypes• Sub-populations adapted to particular local
environments– Unique genetic make-up?– Same species
• Common Garden Experiment– Seed collected from plants of same species
growing in different environments grow in same location(s) (p 282)
– Isolation may lead to differentiation into different species – uniquely adapted to specific environments –( see p 200) restricted range
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