William P. Cunningham University of Minnesota Mary Ann Cunningham Vassar College Copyright ? The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. *See PowerPoint Image Slides for all figures and tables pre-inserted into PowerPoint without notes. Chapter 06 Lecture Outline* Population Biology Outline Dynamics of Population Growth Factors affecting Population Growth Survivorship and regulation of population growth Maintaining populations using conservation biology Biotic Potential Biotic potential refers to unrestrained biological reproduction. Biological organisms can produce enormous numbers of offspring if their reproduction is unrestrained. Constraints include: Scarcity of resources Competition Predation Disease