Population Growth & Interactions

Standards:

1. Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent populations of species while conditions remain stable, but changing conditions may result in new ecosystem dynamics.
2. Explain how various biotic and abiotic factors affect the carrying capacity and biodiversity of an ecosystem using mathematical and/or computational representations.
3. Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.