Environment & Ecology · Ecology
In population ecology, what is defined as the 'carrying capacity' of an environment?
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- 1The absolute economic yield per capita derived from natural resource harvesting
- 2The minimal spatial territory required by an individual organism for survival
- 3The maximum population size of a species that an ecosystem can support long-term without habitat degradation✓
- 4The genetic threshold for a species to undergo rapid evolutionary adaptation
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The maximum population size of a species that an ecosystem can support long-term without habitat degradation
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