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Population Growth

Reading


  • Tuesday

    • Molles and Sher, Ch. 10.3 - 10.5, 11.1 - 11.2
  • Thursday

    • Molles and Sher, Ch. 11 - Applications: The Human Population
    • Gerland et al. (2014) World population stabilization unlikely this century
    • News essay on Gerland (Coghlan, New Scientist)
    • UN 2012 Review of Earth’s Human Carrying Capacity
  • Additional information

    • NKP: How Populations Grow: The Exponential and Logistic Equations (Vandermeer 2012)
    • NKP: Survivorship Curves (Rauschert 2010)
    • Crash Course Ecology: Population Ecology
    • Crash Course Ecology: Human Population Growth