Pyramid for human population
Organisms and Populations
                                                                                      Mutual relations between fig & wasp
                                                           Population Growth curve
Major biome in India
                                    Ramdeo Mishra
Population Growth                                                                Population Interaction
                                                    Organisms and Populations
Rammed Mishra - father of Indian ecology
Ecology- study of biotic and biotic or abiotic                                                    Life history variation - Pacific salmon
Level - organism, population, communities and                                                     fish and bamboo - breed only once in life
                                                  Population growth - control by Birth, Death,
biomes.                                                                                           Largo no. Small size offspring -oysters
                                                  Immigration and Emigration.
                                                                                                  pelagic fish
Populations: - group of individual of same                                                        Small no. Size large - bird & mammals
                                                  Growth models -
species living in an area at a time.
                                                  Exponential growth: j-shape curve, if
                                                                                                  Population interaction:-
                                                  resource are unlimited (dN/dT= rN)
Population attributes: - birth and death rate                                                     Mutualism       +&-
                                                  r- intrinsic rate of natural increase
(per capita birth or death). Sex ratio ( no. Of                                                   Competition.     -&-
                                                  Norway rat: r = 0.015, flour beetle: r = 0.12
male per 1000 female) Age distribution &                                                          Predation.       +&-
                                                  Human (in 1981): r = 0.0205
Pyramid (graphical representation of different                                                    Commensalism. + & 0
                                                  Logistic growth: more realistic, resource are
age group- 3 type: Expending, Stable,                                                             Amensalism       -&0
                                                  limited leads to competition, sigmoid curve.
Declining) Population density (population size)
                                                  dN/dT = rN (K-N/K)
                                                  K = carrying capacity (habitat that support
                                                  max. Population)