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What are some examples of biotic limiting factors?


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Limiting factors:

  1. A limiting factor is a variable that determines the measure or output of a system.
  2. In any physiological process, the factor that limits the reaction rate is referred to as the limiting factor.
  3. It can be biotic or abiotic.
  4. Limiting factors drop the growth rate of the human population.
  5. They affect the carrying capacity of an environment.

Biotic factors:

  1. Living organisms that form an ecosystem are biotic factors.
  2. They include plants, animals, microorganisms, etc.
  3. They work with abiotic factors to form an ecosystem.

Examples of biotic limiting factors:

  1. Predation
  2. Availability of a mating partner
  3. Fertility rate
  4. Parasitism

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