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1. Sustained exponential population growth of grey seals at Sable Island, Nova Scotia

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   18 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: W.D. Bowen, J. McMillan, R. Mohn

   "Grey seal pup production on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, has been monitored since the early 1960s. We estimated pup production on Sable Island in 1997 using aerial photography with a correction for detection of pups on the imagery and a statistical model to account for the proportion of pups...

2. An Introduction to Population Ecology - The Logistic Growth Equation

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   17 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brandon M. Hale, Maeve L. McCarthy

   Describes the logistic population growth model and applies it to the scenario of population growth and overabundance in white-tailed deer. Activity also contains links to more advanced activities such how to model the harvesting rate of a population with logistic growth.

3. Connecting Concepts: Interactive Lessons in Biology, Ecology, Population Dynamics

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   16 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Robert Jeanne, Jan Cheetham, Lee Clippard, Alan Wolf, Les Howles, Edna Francisco, Michelle Glenetski, Bahman Zakeri, Cidney Frietag, Steven Clark, Sainath Suryanarayanan, Ben Schulte, Olaf Olson

   "The capacity for growth is a measure of the success of a population of a species. Because there are so many interactions between individuals and the environment, measuring how well populations grow is often complex. Population biologists frequently use mathematical growth models to help...