5-2 limits to growth. limiting factors the primary productivity of an ecosystem can be reduced when...
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5-2 Limits to Growth
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Limiting Factors
• Limiting Factors• The primary productivity of an ecosystem can be
reduced when there is an insufficient supply of a particular nutrient.
• Ecologists call such substances limiting nutrients.
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Limiting Factors
• A limiting nutrient is an example of a more general ecological concept: a limiting factor.
• In the context of populations, a limiting factor is a factor that causes population growth to decrease.
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Density-Dependent Factors
• Density-Dependent Factors• A limiting factor that depends on population size is
called a density-dependent limiting factor.
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Density-Dependent Factors
– Density-dependent limiting factors include: • competition• predation• parasitism• disease
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Density-Dependent Factors
– Density-dependent factors operate only when the population density reaches a certain level. These factors operate most strongly when a population is large and dense.
– They do not affect small, scattered populations as greatly.
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Density-Dependent Factors
– Competition• When populations become crowded, organisms
compete for food, water space, sunlight and other essentials.
• Competition among members of the same species is a density-dependent limiting factor.
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Density-Dependent Factors
• Competition can also occur between members of different species.
• This type of competition can lead to evolutionary change.
• Over time, the species may evolve to occupy different niches.
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Density-Dependent Factors
– Predation• Populations in nature are often controlled by
predation. • The regulation of a population by predation takes
place within a predator-prey relationship, one of the best-known mechanisms of population control.
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Density-Dependent Factors
Wolf and Moose Populations on Isle Royale
Moose Wolves
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Density-Dependent Factors
– Parasitism and Disease• Parasites can limit the growth of a population.• A parasite lives in or on another organism (the
host) and consequently harms it.
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Density-Independent Factors
• Density-Independent Factors• Density-independent limiting factors affect all
populations in similar ways, regardless of the population size.
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Density-Independent Factors
– Examples of density-independent limiting factors include:
• unusual weather
• natural disasters
• seasonal cycles
• certain human activities—such as damming rivers and clear-cutting forests
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5-2
– A limiting factor that affects all populations in similar ways regardless of their size might be
• drought.• disease.• predation.• crowding.
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5-2
– Which of the following would be a limiting factor affecting the panda population of China?
• programs that educate people about endangered species
• capture of some pandas for placement in zoos• laws protecting habitat destruction• a disease that kills bamboo plants
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5-2
– Density-dependent factors operate most strongly when a population is
• large and dense.• large but sparse.• small and sparse.• small, but growing.
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5-2
– Within a limited area, if the population of a predator increases, the population of its prey is likely to
• increase.• decrease.• remain about the same.• become extinct.
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5-2
– Which of the following is a density-independent factor affecting populations?
• predation• disease• a destructive hurricane• parasites
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