44 Homework: Recurrence Relations

  1. For the logging example from previous section, for initial forest size [latex]h_0[/latex] is the biomass stable? That is, the biomass of the forest is not changing from year to year (this is known as a fixed point).
  2. Find a species of your choosing on the website https://compadre-db.com/ExploreDatabase, like we did for the cutthroat trout in the previous section. Use a spreadsheet program to see what happens to the population over time. What do you notice?

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