Discuss the role of humans in regulating carrying capacity for the human species and in altering the carrying capacity for other species
What will be an ideal response?
Humans can alter their own carrying capacity by finding resources and through technology, but other species have less flexibility in altering their carrying capacity. Humans often alter the carrying capacity for other species by altering climate, encroaching on habitat, reducing breeding areas and food resources, and/or altering trophic structure within an ecosystem through hunting.
You might also like to view...
Which of the following is NOT correct regarding the Pleistocene?
A) At its height almost a third of Earth was covered with ice. B) Sea levels were 100 m (330 ft.) higher than today. C) The Ohio and Missouri River systems marked the southern terminus of continuous ice at its greatest extent. D) It began 1.65 mya and had at least 18 glacial/interglacial cycles.
A form of symbiosis that benefits one species of the interaction while having no effect on the other species is known as
A. commensalism. B. parasitism. C. mutualism. D. predation.
Which of the following states has the high percentage of recycling?
a. California b. Texas c. New Jersey d. Minnesota e. Vermont
What are the four major dune types generally recognized? What will be an ideal response?