biotic potential

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biotic potential

An estimate of the maximum capacity of living things to survive and reproduce under optimal environmental conditions.

biotic potential

The maximum capacity of an individual or population to reproduce under optimal environmental conditions. Populations rarely reproduce at their biotic potential because of limiting factors such as disease, predation, and restricted food resources.

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