EVOLUTION
EVOLUTION OF A POPULATION
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the capacity of what one person can carry per day
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how many animals you have in your daily bag limit at the end of the year
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wildebeest at a watering hole with zebras
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the maximum number of population size that the ecosystem can support
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Detailed explanation-1: -The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available.
Detailed explanation-2: -Carrying capacity can be defined as a species’ average population size in a particular habitat. The species population size is limited by environmental factors like adequate food, shelter, water, and mates. If these needs are not met, the population will decrease until the resource rebounds.
Detailed explanation-3: -Carrying capacity is the maximum number of a species an environment can support indefinitely.
Detailed explanation-4: -The carrying capacity of an ecosystem is the largest population that it can sustain indefinitely with the available resources, also called the “maximum load” by population biologists. Carrying capacity depends on many abiotic and biotic factors in the ecosystem and some are more obvious than others.