Population Growth
R and K Selection
R and K selection are concepts in ecology used to describe traits in the fluctuation of a population or population dynamics. For example, they describe the life-association traits between parent and offspring, such as quantity or number of young ones born at a time, quality of parental care, the age to maturity, and reproductive effort.
Has Earth reached its
Carrying capacity is a quantitative property of an ecosystem that refers to the maximum population size or the maximum number of a biological specie an environment or an ecosystem can sustainably support without degrading or causing any harm to the ecosystem, given all resources to sustain life are available in the ecosystem.
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