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What is carrying capacity?

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The maximum population size that an environment can sustain is called carrying capacity.
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  2. Write the equation for describing the Verhulst- Pearl Logistic Growth

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  3. What is carrying capacity?

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  4. What are the factors that govern of logistic growth?

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  6. "Totally unrelated species could also compete for the same resource". ...

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  7. Resources need not be limiting for competition to occur". Give an exam...

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  8. When resources are limited competitively superior species will eventua...

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  9. What is competitive release?

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  10. What is 'resource partitioning'?

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  11. Give an example for commensalism.

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  12. What is mutualism?

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  13. Give an example for mutualism.

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  14. Give an example for "tight one-to-one relationship with the pollinator...

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  15. What is Amenalism ?

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  17. In mutualism, how the two different organisms in mycorrhizae get benef...

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  18. Cattle or goats never graze on weeds of calotropis. Give reasons.

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  19. Two closely related species competing for the same resources cannot co...

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  20. What type of growth status the following pyramid represents.

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