This week we are going to talk about the Carrying Capacity of a population. Firs

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This week we are going to talk about the Carrying Capacity of a population. First we want to define this concept. Next, we want to give examples of Predator/Prey relationships in a population (for example the rabbits in Australia). What are the Limiting Factors that determine carrying capacity (competition, waste, predation, etc...)? We also want to examine how: a population Increases and Decreases in size with relation to stabilization. Please do not plagiarize a paragraph from the Internet especially when you have no idea what it means.

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when the food,shelter, water and other necessaities are available in the environment than the maximum population size that a environment can hold is called carrying capacity.

an organism that eats another organism id predicator. The prey is the organism which the predator eats. Some examples of predator and prey are lion and zebra, bear and fish, and fox and rabbit.

Abiotic factors like sunlight, temperature, chemical environment and biotic factors like food, predators, disease, competition for resources are limitting factors.

at the present era the population is growing so fast so that in order to stabilize it we need to decrease the population by various measures like decrease in fertility etc. Population will be stabilise if we decrease the growth of population size.

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