Populations grow at geometric or exponential rates in the presence of unlimited resources. Geometric populations grow through pulsed reproduction (e.g., the annual reproduction of deer, which have a ...

Population ecology is the study of how populations — of plants, animals, and other organisms — change over time and space and interact with their environment. Populations are groups of organisms of ...

Big cities with lots of people usually garner images of a fast paced life, where the hustle and bustle of the city is met, and at least tolerated, by those who live there. They live for the "rush" of ...

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, some U.S. leaders and pundits pointed to hard-hit cities such as New York, Milan and Wuhan as proof that population density was to blame for coronavirus ...

Maps are cool, maps are fun, maps show us things in the world that we couldn't otherwise see. Over at The Pudding, Matt Daniels has extruded Developed by Matt Daniels, Human Terrain is an interactive, ...

Our planet offers a remarkable contrast in how people choose to live. While some countries boast mega-cities teeming with millions, others embrace vast, sparsely populated landscapes. Today, we delve ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. The coronavirus pandemic has left many people questioning the relationship between urban density and healthy ...