Population growth: exponential and logistic

Set a growth rate and carrying capacity to compare unlimited exponential growth with logistic growth that levels off at the carrying capacity.

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What is carrying capacity?

The largest population an environment can support for a long time, where births balance deaths.

When does a logistic population grow fastest?

At half the carrying capacity.

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