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excessive change in this factor, as the
occurrence of droughts or floods, maycause significant population decline;
small climatic changes can also alter the
photosynthavailability of food in the ecosystem.esis rate and reduce the



  1. How do populations of
    predators and prey vary in
    predatism?


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population tesecond moment the decrease onds to decrease. At af the (^)
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The prey population then reverts the
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(different from the usual intensity of the
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disturbeharmed. The existence od and both species can f the predatorbe (^)
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creates a population size over the
sustenance capacityenvironmental degradation of the ecosystem,occurs and
the entire prey population is destroyed.



  1. What is the relationship
    between environmental
    resistance and the population
    growth according to the biotic
    potential curve and the real
    population growth curve?
    The difference between the real


population gindividuals x timerowth cu) and the populatiorve (number of (^) n
growth according to the biotic potential
curve of a given population environmental resistance. is a result of



  1. How different is the
    growth according to the biotic
    potential of a viral population
    from the growth according to
    the biotic potential of a
    bacterial population?
    The growth curve according to the biotic


potential of virus apresent a positive exponential pattern.nd bacteria both (^)
The difference between them is that in
each time ppopulation weriod bacteriahile the viral po double theirpulation
multiplies dozens or hundreds of times.
The viral population has more intense growth. Tgrowth his happenscurve thus (^)
because division, each cell generating twobacteria reproduce by binary
daughter cells, while each virus
replicateshundreds of new virus generating des.ozens or even



  1. What are age pyramids?


Age pyramids arrepresentations in e graphicalform of superposed (^)
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