Exam 3 #5

UIC BioS 101 Nyberg

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Minimum Doubling Time

• The time it takes for a species to double the number of individuals even when resources are abundant is called the doubling time.

• Both geometric and exponential growth imply a constant doubling time, doubling time simply related to r, growth rate, is a parameter of the species.

Speaker Notes:

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0.693/Doubling time = r or r = ln2/tD where tD is doubling time.