Carrying capacity is the maximum number of animals an environment can support. Looking at your graph, what do you think the carrying capacity for deer might have been? Why?

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Communities and Ecosystems

Ecology contains two words: Eikos means dwelling, and logy means to study, so the combined meaning is studying habitat or living.