Lemna minor, a species of duckweed, can reproduce to form new plants very quickly. Suppose that a sm

1. Lemna minor, a species of duckweed, can reproduce to form new plants very quickly. Suppose that a small backyard pond contains 25 Lemna minor plants, and the expected growth rate of the population is 1.0 x 10^2 plants per day. Predict how many Lemna minor plants the pond will contain after 31 days.


2. According to population surveys of piping plover, there were 34 of these birds on Dowling Lake, Alberta in 1992. The next year, the population of piping plover in Dowling Lake was 39. Calculate the per capita growth rate for the piping plover population during the entire survey period.