EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Some examples of limiting factors are biotic, like food, mates, and competition with other organisms for resources. Others are abiotic, like space, temperature, altitude, and amount of sunlight available in an environment. Limiting factors are usually expressed as a lack of a particular resource.

Detailed explanation-2: -Parasitism is considered an abiotic limiting factor because it behaves like a living organism within the host body by consuming food and performing reproduction. It affects a large dense population.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the natural world, limiting factors like the availability of food, water, shelter and space can change animal and plant populations. Other limiting factors, like competition for resources, predation and disease can also impact populations.

Detailed explanation-4: -Density-dependent limiting factors include competition, predation, herbivory, parasitism and disease, and stress from overcrowding.