OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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Question
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The number of organisms in a population that an envrionment can support and maintain
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The number of organisms currently in an envrionment
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The number of organisms in an area of land
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The combination of living and non-living factors
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Within this broad definition, four categories are recognized: physical, ecological, economic, and social carrying capacities (Brotherton, 1973).
Detailed explanation-4: -The carrying capacity is the number of individuals the environment can support indefinitely, given fluctuations in resources in the environment. In this equation, if K is much larger than N, the population can grow quickly. If K is smaller than N, the population will shrink.