Panther Population Trends

In this study, we created simulations of population trends under various values of parameters. Such parameters include survival rates, natality, and reproductive rates. Outlined in this chart is the population trend for the panthers in a 25 years time frame under uniform parameters. In other words, all the parameters were set to be their minimum potential, maximum potential, or baseline. According to this chart, the population trend when all the parameters were set to the mx will result in an exponential increase in panther population. On the contrary, when the parameters were all set to be either the minimum or baseline potentials, then it will result in a continuous decrease. In addition, another one of our most focused parameter was natality. For the graph on the right, all the parameters were left as their baseline potential except for natality.
One observation we found from the resulting chart is that when the natality was set to the maximum, then the population size was predicted to increase fairly for the first seven years and then decrease slightly for the rest of the studied 25 years. On the other hand, when the natality was set to the minimum or to be one of the four interval values, then the panther population was predicted to have a continuing decrease for all 25