Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2001
investigating how populations develop and interact over· time. For brevity, we call them ecological population models. Many of them … for one large homogenous population in a constant environment is the logistic growth curve based on the so-called Verhulst …-Pearl equation. Pierre Francois Verhulst (1838) introduced the logistic equation and Raymond Pearl (1930) applied it to population …