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How may increasing the amount of a limiting nutrient in a pond affect the carrying capacity of the pond?
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∙ 7y ago
Well the carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals of a particular species that a particular environment can take, then it works to stabilize that population. So adding a limiting factor would stabilize the populations size more.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe pond would become acidic and have less ability to support organisms
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What is the limiting nutrient of most ecosystems?
Phosphorus or Nitrogen
What is the limiting nutrient for algae growth phosphorus nitrogen or carbon?
All three are limiting nutrients for algae growth, along with light.
What causes algae?
Algal blooms are usually caused by excess phosphorous in lakes; nitrogen in oceans. When a limiting nutrient is added in excess to a marine ecosystem, it is called eutrophication (cultural eutrophication if caused by sewage, fertilizer runoff, etc.). With the addition of an algae's limiting nutrient, its carrying capacity is effectively raised and the population grows. As a result of algal exponential growth, decomposers at the benthos region also experience growth. In the decomposition process, oxygen is used; and in the case of eutrophication, oxygen levels can drop to the point where the environment is hospitable to other marine life.
What is a limiting factor and how does it affect an ecosystem?
It is a limiting nutrient limited by a single nutrient in the ecosystem, & the single goes very slow.
What is an immediate increase in the amount of algae and other producers that result from a large input of a limiting nutrient?
Algal Bloom
How might the introduction of a limiting nutrient in pond affect the carrying capacity of that pond?
The pond would become acidic and have less ability to support organisms
Compare the two typical limiting nutrient in saltwater and freshwater environments?
Phosphorus is the main limiting nutrient in freshwater environments, whereas nitrogen is the main limiting nutrient in saltwater environments.
What is nitrogen's limiting nutrient?
In Ecology, limiting nutrients are compounds that affect growth or success of a population. One such nutrient, found in marine ecosystems, is nitrogen. Nitrogen IS the limiting nutrient - it does not have one.
When an ecosystem is limited by a single nutrient?
a limiting nutrient
How a nutrient can be a limiting factor in an ecosystem?
when there is less food, there is less population and thus become a limiting factor or rather reaches carrying capacity of the ecosystem due to the lack of food to sustain the biotic potential in this case the population.
When is a substance called a limiting nutrient?
This is a substance that is limited in nutrient. An example is when a limiting nutrient is supplied in large amounts, it acts as a fertilizer causing algae to bloom.
A nutrient that is scarce or cycle slowly through an ecosystem is called?
the substance is a limiting factor, but im not sure at all__________________________________________orLimiting nutrient- single nutrient that either is scarce or cycles very slowly, limiting the growth of organisms in an ecosystem.
A limiting nutrient is to ecosystem productivity as a limiting factor is to population?
growth rate
What are limiting nutrients?
A limiting nutrient is when a substance is in short supply, and it is needed more.
What happens if there is a large amount of a limiting nutrient?
Wording of question is paradoxical, limiting can't be in excess .
What is the limiting nutrient of most ecosystems?
Phosphorus or Nitrogen
What is the carrying capacity in any ecosystem?
the largest population that can be supported
