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Description: - Limiting factors = physical, chemical and biological characteristics that restrain population growth - Water, space, food, predators, and disease - Environmental resistance = All limiting factors taken together - Carrying capacity = the maximum population size of a species that its environment can sustain - An S-shaped logistic growth curve - Limiting factors slow and stop exponential growth - Carrying capacity changes Humans have raised their carrying capacity by decreasing the carrying capacity for other species Picture Stats: Views: 324 Filesize: 87.04kB Height: 617 Width: 700 Source: https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=35657 |