Question 1.Consider a population of perennial plants that breed in the early spring and suffer high drought-related mortality late in the summer. Field monitoring experiments suggest that drought leads to a 50% decline in the population during the late summer (d = 0.5). Given this degree of mortality, use the model to calculate how many offspring each individual would, on average, have to produce during the breeding season to prevent the population from declining over time. In other words, calculate the minimum value of b that would be compatible with population growth. [1 point]

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