Carrying capacity – A capricious construct

Roger Cropp and J. Norbury

Ecological Modelling, 2019, vol. 401, issue C, 20-26

Abstract: The concept of a carrying capacity of an environment for a population has been an effective way of introducing a connection between populations and their environment. This approach has been particularly effective in heuristic Lotka–Volterra models of competition and predation that provide a basis for theoretical considerations of population interactions. However, the concept has proved less useful for interactions such as mutualism.

Keywords: Carrying capacity; Obligate mutualism; Explicit resource accounting; Consumer-resource model; Lotka–Volterra model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.03.010

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