Factors such as food supply, weather, disease, and predators that keep a population below its biotic potential.
The totality of factors such as adverse weather conditions, shortage of food or water, predators, and diseases that tend to cut back populations and keep them from growing or spreading. (Contrast biotic potential.)
The sum of the factors limiting the numbers of an organism in a specific environment ( BCFT).
The genetically-based ability of an organism to withstand stresses, threats, or limiting factors in the environment.
All the limiting factors that act together to limit the growth of a population. See biotic potential, limiting factor.
the environmental factors which limit the biotic potential of a population
Mortality and emigration, which limit population growth. 842
All the limiting factors that tend to reduce population growth rates and set the maximum allowable population size or carrying capacity of an ecosystem.
All the forces in the environment that act to level off the rate of growth and limit population size. Limited food or sunshine, low temperature or rainfall, or predators are some components of environmental resistance.
Environmental resistance is the limiting influences of environmental factors upon the increase in numbers of individuals in a community. When paired with biotic potential, a population will reach carrying capacity.