Question

Carrying capacity is ________.

A. seldom exceeded in real populations.
B. the maximum population size that a particular environment can support.
C. determined by density and dispersion data.
D. fixed for most species over most of their range most of the time.
E. the term used to describe the stress a population undergoes due to limited resources.

Answer 1

B) because Carrying capacity is the maximum population size of a species that the environment can sustain indefinitely given available resources.