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What is ‘carrying capacity’ of a species in a habitat? Why is logistic growth model considered more realistic?

‘CARRYING CAPACITY’ of a species is the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain

The logistic growth is more realistic because it considers those environmental limits that are density, food abundance,resting place , sickness , parasites and its shows the population limits


It forms S- shaped curve



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