Engineering Board Exam Reviewer · Environmental Engineering · easy

The maximum population size that an environment can sustain indefinitely is called its:

  1. Biotic potential
  2. Population density
  3. Limiting factor
  4. Carrying capacity

Answer

D. Carrying capacity

Solution

Often denoted K in logistic growth models.

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