{"id":8793,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/population_-biology_and_ecology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:34","slug":"population_-biology_and_ecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/population_-biology_and_ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"Population (biology and ecology)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of interbreeding organisms of one species living in a certain geographical range at a given time. &nbsp;The nature of the population is determined by factors such as density, sex ratio, birth and death rates, emigration and immigration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"biological_evolution\">Biological evolution<\/a>, <a href=\"cohort\">Cohort<\/a>, Community, <a href=\"epidemiology\">Epidemiology<\/a>, <a href=\"general_theory_of_biological_classification\">General theory of biological classification<\/a>, <a href=\"heterogeneity\">Heterogeneity<\/a>, <a href=\"polymorphism\">Polymorphism<\/a>, <a href=\"population_genetics\">Population genetics<\/a>, <a href=\"population_-statistics-\">Population (statistics)<\/a>, Sex ratio <\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of interbreeding organisms of one species living in a certain geographical range at a given time. &nbsp;The nature of the population is determined by factors such as density, sex ratio, birth and death rates, emigration and immigration.&nbsp; See Biological evolution, Cohort, Community, Epidemiology, General theory of biological classification, Heterogeneity, Polymorphism, Population genetics, Population &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/population_-biology_and_ecology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Population (biology and ecology)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}