SSC
BIOLOGY
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Question
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Maximum sustainable population that a given environment can support.
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Greatest number of different niches possible in a given area
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Potential growth in the number of species in a given area.
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Limitation on numbers of species in a community.
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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. Carrying capacity depends on many abiotic and biotic factors in the ecosystem and some are more obvious than others.
Detailed explanation-3: -The largest number of individuals the environment can support is called the carrying capacity.