Chapter 14
Intraspecific Population Regulation
by
Ted Dolzine
High density is stressful to populations
High density effects the organisms stress by not having enough food and room to survive.
This stress results in decrease of births and increased infant mortality.
The hormone pheromone is released by an animal that influences the behavior of others of the same species. Which this effects there stress level.
Dispersal may or may not be density-dependent
If dispersal is higher than there is less chance of inbreeding and there are more mates in the wild to produce offspring.
Dispersal requires a source and a sink, an empty or unfilled habitat so that animals can survive.
Some sink habitats have large populations, which would disappear without continual immigration.
Social behavior may limit population
A substantial portion of population consists of surplus animals that do not breed b/c they either die or attempt to breed and fail.
Such individuals are prevented from breeding by dominant individuals
Nonbreeding individuals are capable of breeding if dominant individuals a removed.
Breeding animals are not completely using food and space
Social interactions influence activities and home range
Home range is a place where the animal spend most its time at all year.
Territory is the part of the home range that the animal is protective over.
plants capture and defend space
Plants defend there space differently than animals do
Plant capture and hold on to there space
They never move but they spread out there limbs for new area.