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    This document contains worksheets about carrying capacity and limiting factors in ecosystems. It defines carrying capacity as the maximum population size of a species that an environment can sustain indefinitely. The worksheets ask students to interpret graphs of population sizes over time, identify factors that affect carrying capacity, and predict how carrying capacity would change given environmental disturbances like drought. Students are asked to analyze stories told by population graphs and brainstorm reasons for population fluctuations.

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    The documents discuss concepts of carrying capacity and limiting factors in population ecology, using graphs to illustrate population changes over time in relation to environmental limits.

    A population's growth will increase until it reaches the environmental limits of its carrying capacity, at which point resources become limited and the population will stabilize.

    Biotic factors like predation and competition for resources as well as abiotic factors like climate and habitat availability can impact the carrying capacity by increasing or decreasing the number of individuals an ecosystem can support.

    Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors –Worksheet 1

    1. Define carrying capacity:

    2. In the graph below, the carrying capacity is rabbits.

    Carrying
    capacity

    number of
    rabbits

    3. How many rabbits were in the population in:

    4 years? 6 years? 7 years?

    4. How many years did it take for the rabbits to reach their carrying capacity?

    Explain how you decide on this.

    5a) Define limiting factors

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    b) List as many biotic and abiotic factors that affect the carrying capacity of an ecosystem
    (in other words limits the number of individuals in a population).

    BIOTIC FACTORS ABIOTIC FACTORS

    c) Organize your factors in the following arrows to show if they increase or decrease the
    number of individuals an ecosystem can support. You may need to include words like increase,
    or decrease. Some factors can go in both arrows

    6. Predict how the carrying


    capacity of the rabbit population would
    change if there was a drought that
    killed much of the grass that the
    rabbits eat for food. Draw a line
    showing where you think the new
    carrying capacity will be.

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    Carrying Capacity - Worksheet 2

    The shape of the population line tells us the story of what is happening to the number of
    individuals over time. This graph can take the form of many shapes, each which tells us a story.
    “Read” the line left to right and pretend that you are in a roller coaster. Are you going up or
    down? If you are going up the population is increasing, if you are going down the population is
    decreasing.

    Most healthy populations oscillate around the carrying capacity line. In the graph below, the
    rabbits overshoot their carrying capacity. At this point there was not enough food, more rabbits
    die and fewer rabbits were born. The population then crashes (decreases rapidly). Eventually
    more rabbits are born and the population goes up.

    1. Draw a line representing the carrying capacity, and estimate the number of beetles
    that would be found in a healthy ecosystem. beetles.

    Millions
    of
    Beetles

    Days

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    ECOLOGIST CONFERENCE – Worksheet 3

    You are a park ecologist who has just received environmental monitoring data in the form of
    graphs from your field technician. You now have to determine what is happening to the
    populations of a number of species in your park.

    Look at each of the following graphs and see if you can describe the story they are telling. What
    is happening to the populations and carrying capacity for each? Confer with your fellow
    ecologist and brainstorm to come up with reasons behind the story of the graph. Be ready to
    share and defend your reasons with all the other ecologists in the park.

    1a)
    Number of
    Frogs

    Time (months)
    b)

    population
    c) carrying
    Number of

    capacity
    Deer

    Time →

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