Biology 2010 Student Edition

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 9780133669510
ISBN 13: 978-0-13366-951-0

Chapter 5, Populations - Assessment - 5.1 How Populations Grow - Understand Key Concepts/Think Critically - Page 148: 9

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Carrying capacity refers to the number of population of species an ecosystem can sustain indefinitely. Increase beyond the number can lead to depletion of resources or decrease in population.

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