Population ecology is the study of how populations ... of individuals occupying a given area — or the population's density. As population size approaches the carrying capacity of the environment ...

Holland, J. N. & DeAngelis, D. L. A consumer-resource approach to the density-dependent population dynamics of mutualism. Ecology 91, 1286-1295 (2010). Holling, C. S. The components of predation ...

The study, published in Ecology and led by Volker Rudolf ... By manipulating temperature and population density in a ...