Limiting Factors in an Ecosystem

Limiting Factors in an ecosystemAny biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the number or production of organisms is a limiting factor.

Take this ecosystem found in the fishbowl
The limiting factors would be the size of the bowl, amount of water, will limit the number of fish that can survive in the fishbowl

Limiting factors can be dependent limiting factors and independent factors

Dependent limiting factors depend on the number of organisms
For example, the amount of food available for each organism depends on the number of organisms
An independent limiting factors does not depend on the number of organisms.
For example, the amount of rainfall does not depend on the number of organisms

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Density-Dependent Factors
A limiting factor that depends on population size is called a density-dependent limiting factor.

Density-dependent limiting factors include:
• competition
• predation
• parasitism
• disease

Here is a list of abiotic limiting factors
Sunlight
Climate
Temperature
Water
Space
Soil chemistry
Fire
Natural disasters

Biotic factors limiting factors
Number of plants
Number animals
Amount of competition
Number of decomposers
parasites
Disease causing agents

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Limiting factor definition in video-
Any abitoic or biotic factors that restricts the number or reproduction of organisms in a ecosystem is a limiting factor

explanation: Abiotic and biotic factors are non-living and living things. These can limit or restrict the number of animals and plants that can reproduce. A limiting factor is anything, literally anything in an ecosystem that restrict growth of population.

Examples of what COULD be abitoic limiting factors: Sunlight, climate, temperature, water, space, soil, fire and natural disasters.
explanation: All these things are non-living factors or parts that can affect the population growth. for example, if their is too little space, it can restrict population size. All these depend on what environment your in.

Examples of what COULD be biotic factors: Number of plants and animals, competition, number of decomposers, disease and parasites.
explanation: All of these are living factors or parts that can affect population growth. for example, the larger the population of animals and plants, the larger the competition is going to be. If there is a large snake population and little rabbit population, they are going to have a hard time finding food.

Density dependent limiting factor definition-
Depend on the number of organisms or population.
Example: Competition, predation, parasitism and disease.​
Explanation: Dependment means to depend on something, and density means the amount of something in a specific area or population. If you put that together, you can infer that a density dependent factor means it depends on the population. Competition depends on how many animals or plants there are in an ecosystem. Again, if there is a large snake population and little rabbit population, they are going to have a hard time finding food.

Density independent limiting factor defintiion:
These don't depend on organisms
Example: Rainfall doesn't depend on the number of organisms.
Explanation: Independent means to be by itself, and density means the amount of something in a specfic area or population. If you put these together, you can infer that denisty independent factor means that it does not depend on population. Animals and plants cannot affect the rainfall. The rain is going to fall whether they like it or not.


Hopefully this helped you a little bit, and let me know if anything is wrong. ⚠️ I am not a teacher, just trying to help out a little bit. The video set up was very confusing. If your reading this, have a wonderful day and good luck! :)

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