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What is carrying capacity ?

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Carrying Capacity. In nature, a habitat has limited resources, which supports the growth of definite number of individuals of a population, beyond which growth is not possible. This limit of nature is called as carrying capacity which limits the size of population of a particular species in a habitat.
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