Western Governors University

Ecology and Environmental Science

Task 1

A. Growth Curve

(Sheep carrying capacity, n.d)

Part B. In an ecosystem, multiple factors can affect the population growth of a species. These factors are called limiting factors. A limiting factor in biology refers to any of the factors (variables) in an environment capable of limiting a process, such as growth, abundance, or distribution of a population of organisms in an ecosystem (Limiting Factor Definition and Examples, 2020). When discussing limiting factors, two types occur density-dependent factors and density-independent factors. Density-dependent factors tend to become increasingly important as a species population density increases in size. Density-dependent...