A continuously growing population of bears has a population size of 500 and its intrinsic rate of increase is 0.07 per year. Assuming that this rate of increase remains the same, about how long should it take for the population to reach 1,000? (Note: “e” is about 2.7 and the natural logarithm of 2 is about 0.70).

A continuously growing population of bears has a population size of 500 and its intrinsic rate of increase is 0.07 per year. Assuming that this rate of increase remains the same, about how long should it take for the population to reach 1,000? (Note: “e” is about 2.7 and the natural logarithm of 2 is about 0.70).

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Chapter53: Introduction To Ecology: Population Ecology

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Problem 5TYU: In a graph of population size versus time, a J-shaped curve is characteristic of (a) exponential...

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