Question

Dr Mifflin has been studying the species Nerviosa complera. She has found that while members of this species have plenty of food and are not resource limited, they get extremely agitated when they are crowded, and their reproduction falls off rapidly. She has studied the growth rate of the population as a function of population size, n), and has observed that it changes according to the function Rn a, b > 0. 1+bn' a) Formulate a model that describes the population size of Nerviosa complera based on this information. b) Find the equilibrium points of the population in your model and determine their stability.

Answer 1

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