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What is known as the maximum number of individuals the resources in the environment can sustain?

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This is called the carrying capacity. It's the maximum biological population size for an environment. There are many factors to reaching the carrying capacity such as water, food, and habitat. It's kind of sad when you think about it.

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Answer: Carrying capacity

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Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals of the population of a particular species which an ecosystem can sustain in terms of availability of resources like food, water, shelters and others.

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