Limiting Factors
What is Limiting Factors?
What is Limiting Factors?food, water, living space, disease, predation, and natural disasters.
What is Overcapacity?
Being beyond the maximum capacity
These limiting factors affect populations regardless of their size. Examples include natural disasters, pollution, and extreme weather events.
What is Emigration?
The movement of individuals out of an area
What is Density Dependent?
These limiting factors have a greater impact as the population size increases. Examples include competition, predation, and disease.
What is Immigration?
The movement of individuals into an area
What is Abiotic Factors?
These are non-living components of the environment
What is Limiting Factors?
Any environmental factor that restricts population growth, such as food, water, or competition
What are Biotic Factors?
These are living components of the environment
What is carrying capacity?
The Max amount of organisms in a area