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- What are the factors of environmental resistance?
- What are the two types of environmental resistance factors?
- How does environmental resistance affect population growth?
- What is an environmental resistance?
- Which of the following examples refers to a biotic factor for environmental resistance?
- What is an example of a resistant ecosystem?
- What are limiting factors?
- What is ecosystem resilience?
- What causes fluctuations in carrying capacity?
- Which of the following factors will affect population growth rates?
- What is the role of environment in increasing and decreasing of population in the organisms?
- What are 5 biotic factors examples?
- What are the main factors of environment?
- What are the four factors that affect biotic potential?
- What factors influence the resilience of an ecosystem?
What are the factors of environmental resistance?
Lesson Summary
Environmental resistance factors are things that limit the growth of a population. They include biotic factors - like predators, disease, competition, and lack of food - as well as abiotic factors - like fire, flood, and drought.
What are the two types of environmental resistance factors?
Environmental resistance includes a mixture of abiotic factors such as temperature, and biotic factors such as natural enemies (biological control agents) to limit the organism for expressing its full capacity to reproduce.
How does environmental resistance affect population growth?
Environmental Resistance can reduce the reproductive rate and average life span and increase the death rate of young. As Environmental Resistance increases, population growth slows and eventually stops, likely near (k).
What is an environmental resistance?
Definition of environmental resistance
: the sum of the environmental factors (such as drought, mineral deficiencies, and competition) that tend to restrict the biotic potential of an organism or kind of organism and impose a limit on numerical increase.
Which of the following examples refers to a biotic factor for environmental resistance?
Environmental Resistance and Carrying Capacity
Biotic factors include predation, competition, parasitism, and diseases. ... Some of the common examples of environmental resistance include the availability of water and predator-prey relationship.
What is an example of a resistant ecosystem?
Sand pine scrub forests have low resistance to fires due to their thin bark and the ecosystem's dry conditions. However, they have high resilience due to the cones requiring fire to open, which then release their seeds to colonize the charred ground.
What are limiting factors?
A limiting factor is anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing. Some examples of limiting factors are biotic, like food, mates, and competition with other organisms for resources.
What is ecosystem resilience?
Ecosystem resilience is the inherent ability to absorb various disturbances and reorganize while undergoing state changes to maintain critical functions.
What causes fluctuations in carrying capacity?
Carrying capacity fluctuations can be chaotic. These are erratic fluctuations around K, often due to environmental factors that have an immediate impact on population size. Disease and natural disasters may cause chaotic fluctuations. ... If a population goes too far above K, it may crash.
Which of the following factors will affect population growth rates?
Population growth rate is affected by birth rates, death rates, immigration, and emigration.
What is the role of environment in increasing and decreasing of population in the organisms?
In the natural world, limiting factors like the availability of food, water, shelter, and space can change animal and plant populations. ... Sometimes a population will grow too large for the environment to support. Other changes in limiting factors can cause a population to decrease.
What are 5 biotic factors examples?
5 Answers. Examples of biotic factors include any animals, plants, trees, grass, bacteria, moss, or molds that you might find in an ecosystem.
What are the main factors of environment?
Environmental factors include temperature, food, pollutants, population density, sound, light, and parasites.
What are the four factors that affect biotic potential?
These factors include unfavourable climatic conditions; lack of space, light, or a suitable substrate; deficiencies of necessary chemical compounds or minerals; and the inhibiting effects of predators, parasites, disease organisms, or unfavourable genetic changes.
What factors influence the resilience of an ecosystem?
Ecologists Brian Walker, C S Holling and others describe four critical aspects of resilience: latitude, resistance, precariousness, and panarchy. The first three can apply both to a whole system or the sub-systems that make it up.
