An introduction to population

By J. Weeks. 2012

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Forecasting at Scale (2018, neutral): “Modeling growth at Facebook is often similar to population growth in natural ecosystems (e.g. Hutchinson [1978]), where there is nonlinear growth that saturates at a carrying capacity – a natural upper bound on the value of the series.”
Growthcurver: an R package for obtaining interpretable metrics from microbial growth curves (2016, methodology): “Carrying capacity and growth rate Growthcurver fits a basic form of the logistic equation common in ecology and evolution [14, 15] to”
Natural enemies and environmental factors affecting the population dynamics of the gypsy moth (2013, background): “Nevertheless, the delayed density-dependent mortality caused by natural enemies was supposed to be the main reason for population cycles in gypsy moth populations (Turchin 1990; Berryman 1991a,b; Liebhold and Elkinton 1991; Liebhold and Kamata 2000).”