Apes practice exam frq 3 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

(a) The consequences of a growing human population have been a concern since the times of Thomas Malthus when he proposed that humans could exceed their carrying capacity on Earth. (i) Describe the concept of carrying capacity for a species. - (i) The carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals of a given species that a particular environment can support or sustain for an indefinite period. If a species exceeds their carrying capacity, they will face a dieoff. (ii) Describe how a...