environmental resistance factors

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environmental resistance factors Those aspects of an environment which constrain the growth of a population and establish the maximum number of individuals that can be sustained. Such factors include the availability of essential resources (e.g. food and water), predation, disease, the accumulation of toxic metabolic wastes, and, in some species, behavioural changes due to stress caused by overcrowding.

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