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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

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Parent topics

• World population [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Population [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ecology [r]: The study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and how they are affected by the environment. [e]
• Biodiversity [r]: The study of the diversity of life. [e]

Subtopics

• Autecology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bacterial growth [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Basic reproduction number [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Carrying capacity [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Delayed density dependence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Density-dependent inhibition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ecological footprint [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ecosystem model [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fecundity [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fenchel's Law [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Genetic variation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Habitat destruction [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Irruptive growth [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Leslie matrix [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Life table [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Malthusian growth model [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Malthusian theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Malthusianism [r]: A theory in demography which holds that population expands faster than food supplies and famine will result unless steps are taken to reduce population growth. [e]
• Matrix population models [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Metapopulation [r]: A group of spatially separated populations of the same species which interact at some level. [e]
• Paradox of enrichment [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Population bottleneck [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Population control [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Population density [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Population distribution [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Population dynamics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Population genetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Population size [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Population structure [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Spatial ecology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Survivorship curve [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Charles Sutherland Elton [r]: Add brief definition or description
• J. Morgan Williams [r]: Add brief definition or description
• James Brown (ecologist) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ladislav Mucina [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Merlin Tuttle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michael Hassell [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paul Keddy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Robert MacArthur [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Thekla Resvoll [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Baby boom [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Family planning [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Food security [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Maximum sustainable yield [r]: Add brief definition or description
• One-child policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Over-consumption [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Overpopulation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• The Population Bomb [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United Nations Population Fund [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World population [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World Population Foundation [r]: Add brief definition or description