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Limiting Factors

This document defines limiting factors and carrying capacity. Limiting factors are conditions in the environment like resources, space, or predators that limit population growth. Carrying capacity is the maximum population size an ecosystem can sustain given limiting factors. Together, limiting factors and carrying capacity work to control population growth and keep populations from exceeding resources.

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Limiting Factors

This document defines limiting factors and carrying capacity. Limiting factors are conditions in the environment like resources, space, or predators that limit population growth. Carrying capacity is the maximum population size an ecosystem can sustain given limiting factors. Together, limiting factors and carrying capacity work to control population growth and keep populations from exceeding resources.

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Background Information

What is a Limiting Factor?


● Limiting Factors are…
(two similar definitions)
● conditions of the
environment that limit
the growth of a species.
● biotic and abiotic factors
that prevent the
continuous growth of a
population.
What is a Limiting Factor?
● Populations would continue to increase if
they had all of the resources they require in
unlimited amounts, but there are always
factors that limit their increase.

● Limiting factors control


population growth.
What is Carrying Capacity?
● Because of these limiting factors, each
ecosystem has a finite capacity for growth
connected to its carrying capacity.
What is Carrying Capacity?
● Carrying capacity is
the number of
individuals of a species
that an ecosystem can
support.
About Limiting Factors
● In nature, populations of organisms rarely grow
uncontrolled. Each ecosystem has a carrying capacity
(or number or organisms it can sustain/support).
● Remember, limiting factors are biotic and abiotic
factors that prevent the continuous growth of a
population.
● Because of limiting factors, the number of organisms
in a population is often well below carrying capacity.
Activity: List some Limiting Factors
● biotic factors (living, biological)
● abiotic factors(physico-chemical factors)
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