Question

What is the carrying capacity (K) of a habitat?

Options

• The maximum number of individuals that the environment can support

• The number of births minus deaths per year

• The rate of population growth per individual

• The initial population size at time zero

Answer 1

The carrying capacity (K) is the maximum number of individuals of a species that a habitat can support indefinitely. It represents the environmental limit beyond which resources become insufficient to sustain the population.