Question: Exercise 4: (ecological engineering) An ecological engineer might have to track the population of a species in order to discern the health of the population.

Exercise 4: (ecological engineering) An ecological engineer might have to track the population of a species in order to discern the health of the population. Sometimes the engineer is tracking the population of a native species, sometimes the population of an invasive species. Invasive species often exhibit population growth that takes off very quickly until the species saturates its ecological niche. Suppose the population, Plt), of a specific invasive species is given by P(t) = 100tanh(0.72t) where t is measured in years. The average growth rate, r(t), of the population can be found by the relation: r(t) = P(t + At) - P(t) At Use a for-loop to create a vector of values for the growth rate and plot the growth rate from 0 to 8 years. Let your increments of time be 0.005 years. After how many years does it take for the population of the invasive species to saturate
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