Global circulation models predict and numerous observations confirm that anthropogenic climate change has altered high-frequency climate variability. However, it is not yet well understood how changing patterns of environmental variation will affect wildlife population dynamics and other ecological processes. Theory predicts that a population’s long-run growth rate is diminished and the chance of population extinction is increased as environmental variation increases. This results from the fact that population growth is a multiplicative process and that long-run population growth rate is the geometric mean of growth rates over time, which is always less than the arithmetic mean. ha ha ha, yer fooney!! WHAT THE HECK DOES THIS EVEN FLIPPING MEAN!? AHHHHHH!!! I HATE SCIENCE!
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:01:15 +0000