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This chapter describes in detail several measurements of population size and growth. It analyzes factors that change population structures, including competition for limited resources, reproductive strategies, and environmental pressures. The chapter concludes with information regarding the growth of the human population, and it relates concerns in this regard to the information on ecosystems presented in previous chapters.

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