7. What pattern of population growth would you expect to see under these
conditions described in the last question (limited resources)?
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You said that under limited resources you would expect to see this type of population growth
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You said that under limited resources you would expect to see this type of population growth
no -- when resources are limited, population can't grow indefinitely,
which is what this graph shows. This is "exponential" population growth, characteristic of unlimited resources.
no -- look at the axis labels as well as the shape of the curve! This
graph is claiming that your population's size determines what time it is!
possibly yes -- but this isn't the simplest thing that could happen when
resources are limited. In a more advanced course you'd discover that this
pattern of population growth is expected when R0 depends "nonlinearly" on N,
or when there's a "time lag" between when a resource limitation occurs, and
when that limitation affects the population size.