From the greek "to disperse," a term describing forceful or vol- untary dispersal of a people from their homeland to a new place. originally denoting the dispersal of jews, it is increasingly applied to other population dispersals, such as the involuntary relocation of black peoples during the slave trade or chinese peoples outside of mainland china, taiwan and hong kong is

The graph below shows how the price of wheat varies with the demand quantity. suppose that lower production costs increases the supply of wheat, such that more wheat is supplied at each price level. the new equilibrium price (after the increase in supply) is

The graph shows a student’s data from an investigation about plant growth in five plants of the same type.

Apopulation is a group of individuals of a single species existing together in an area. a population’s range, the area it occupies, changes over time. populations, in turn, may form a network, or metapopulation, connected by individuals that move from one group to another. within a population, the distribution of individuals can be random, uniform, or clumped, and the distribution is determined in part by the availability of resources. how might the geographic range of a species change if populations could not exchange individuals with each other? how would your answer depend on what type of metapopulation existed?