Is a carrying capacity a fixed entity? Discuss the role of humans in regulating carrying capacity for the human species and in altering the carrying capacity for other species

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While all organisms are subject to environmental resistance, they may be capable of altering their environment to reduce environmental resistance, or environmental conditions may change naturally to set a new carrying capacity. 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 and reducing breeding areas and food resources, and/or altering trophic structure within an ecosystem through hunting.

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