If every egg that the adult female frog lays at the beginning of the season becomes an adult frog , imagine what the pond would look like!!!!
This is known in ecology as the reproductive potential of the organism and for our chorus frog you calculated this to be 320 frogs in a year or 640 for the 2 female frogs in the pond!
Of course his does not happen so that factors that cause limits to this growth are known as limiting factors.
Today we also briefly talked about the Pond Ecosystem write up that we will begin in class on Friday. Plus we went to the pond to gather data one more time and to sketch the pond for the project.
This is known in ecology as the reproductive potential of the organism and for our chorus frog you calculated this to be 320 frogs in a year or 640 for the 2 female frogs in the pond!
Of course his does not happen so that factors that cause limits to this growth are known as limiting factors.
Today we also briefly talked about the Pond Ecosystem write up that we will begin in class on Friday. Plus we went to the pond to gather data one more time and to sketch the pond for the project.
| 2013-05-20_reproductive_potential.pdf |
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