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What is the relationship between carrying capacity and limiting factors?
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∙ 10y ago
the difference between limiting factor and carrying capacity is the fact that carrying capacity is the population a ecosystem can support over TIME and limiting factor just makes the population stop growing and wont let any more people/animals/ect.. in if the place is packed
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agocarrying capacity is how many of a certain organism an ecosystem can hold, limiting factors are things that can limit a population's growth. So for example say there's a forest and it has a low amount of food for deer. Food availability would be a limiting factor and it effects how many deer the forest can support.
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∙ 15y agoThis one has been explored by others (see suggested links below) and is a bigger question than a paragraph or two here can answer well.
We've already exceeded global carrying capacity. We are now in "overshoot".
(Imagine a car sailing smoothly through the air after having been driven off a cliff here.)
Global population is nearing 7 billion. Different theorists using different methods seem to end up agreeing that global carrying capacity is probably about 2 billion. (This assumes some level of social justice and a moderate, low by US standards, standard of living. More is possible if you accept a cattle car / Matrix-esque "life".) In any case, we will get to that much-lower-than-7-billion number the hard way (wars, famine, disease, and their accompanying losses of environmental quality, freedom, and social justice) OR the less hard way (immediately and drastically reducing our population voluntarily).
No technological / "alternative energy" options have the capacity or can be ramped up fast enough to avoid major global calamity without an accompanying rapid drop in population. That isn't to say we shouldn't do them. Aggressively shifting to alternative energy is necessary, just not sufficient.
Approaching the Limits www.paulchefurka.ca Bruce Sundquist on environmental impact of overpopulation http://home.alltel.net/bsundquist1/ The Oil Drum Peak Oil Overview - June 2007 (www.theoildrum.com/node/2693) ...and of course the classic "Overshoot" by Catton
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∙ 11y agoLF are closely tied to carrying capacity.Many kinds of animals can increase in numbers quickly, & may temporarily exceed the capacity of their habitat.
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∙ 10y agoThe carrying capacity is a specie's maximum population size a specific environment can sustain over time. Limiting factors are those factors which keep a population at equilibrium, meaning not increasing or decreasing over time. Limiting factors are things such as the availability of food, mates, and space. Population size can also be limited by predation, habitat destruction, and disease.
The relationship between carrying capacity and limiting factors are that the carrying capacity of a specific environment is dictated by the limiting factors of that environment. The carrying capacity is the number, the limiting factors are the reason the number has the value it does.
A population will not truly ever reach equilibrium at the carrying capacity, but rather will fluctuate slightly above and slightly below the carrying capacity and can also take dumps and even push nuclear waist into cow dung.
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∙ 13y agothey both have to with the population of something
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