What is a limiting factor?

All living things need food, water, shelter and space to survive. Aas long as organisms have

all of these things available to them their population will continue to grow. However,

populations cannot grow forever. Some form of environmental resistance will stop the

population’s growth. The form of environmental resistance is called a limiting factor since it

limits the population. However, limiting factors may also increase a population. We will look at

many different limiting factors and classify them into density independent factors and density

dependent factors.