EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Or in other words its the amount of resources that a habitat contains for a given population. Therefore the carrying capacity of a population is determined by the limiting resources in the habitat.

Detailed explanation-2: -The maximum population size that an ecosystem can support is called carrying capacity. Limiting factors determine carrying capacity. The availability of abiotic factors (such as water, oxygen, and space) and biotic factors (such as food) dictates how many organisms can live in an ecosystem.

Detailed explanation-3: -Limiting factors within every ecosystem, such as the availability of food or the effects of predation and disease, prevent a population from becoming too large. These limiting factors determine an ecosystem’s carrying capacity, or maximum population size the environment can support given all available resources.

Detailed explanation-4: -In logistic growth, a population’s per capita growth rate gets smaller and smaller as population size approaches a maximum imposed by limited resources in the environment, known as the carrying capacity ( K).

Detailed explanation-5: -The carrying capacity is defined as the environment’s maximal load, which in population ecology corresponds to the population equilibrium, when the number of deaths in a population equals the number of births (as well as immigration and emigration).