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Population Dynamics: Carrying Capacity

♻️AP Environmental Science
Review

Population Dynamics: Carrying Capacity

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated September 2025
Verified for the 2026 exam
Verified for the 2026 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated September 2025

Resources

Learn about Carrying capacity and how it acts on the number of individuals that can live in a population. We will go into the differences between exponential and logistic growth and how external pressures like limited food or predators will cause logistic growth. In addition we look at examples of population oscillations and real life versus simulated carrying capacity.