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(chatquestion)...lotus plants in a
es of a population. In earlier chapters you have
although an individual organism is the one that has to cope
anged environment, it is at the population levelthat natural
pperates to evolve the desired traits Population ecology is,
an important area of ecology because it links ecology to
n genetics and evolution.
alation has certain attributes that an individual organism does
dividual may have births and deaths, but a population has birth
death rates In a population these rates refer to per capita birthsX
S, respectively. The rates; hence, expressed is change in numbers
or decrease) with respect to members of the population. Here is an
in a pond there are 20 lotus plants last year and through
n8 new plants are added, taking the current population to 28,
te as 8/20 -04 offspring per lotus per vear. If 4
CA0 initflies died during a specified
ingthat period
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