Two basic principles are involved, the idea of exponential growth and its ultimate control. The basics of population ecology emerge from some of the most elementary considerations of biological facts.

He is also known for developing an exponential formula used to forecast population growth, which is currently known as the Malthusian growth model. Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century British ...

2010). The yearly increase in the northern YNP bison population between 1902 and 1915 can be described as exponential growth. A population that grows exponentially adds increasingly more ...