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limiting population size
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limiting factor — noun 1. : the factor that limits the reaction rate in any physiological process governed by many variables 2. : the environmental factor that is of predominant importance in restricting the size of a population lack of winter browse is a limiting … Useful english dictionary
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limiting factor — Essential factor in the environment that is in short supply; thus limiting growth, some life process or population size … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
limiting factor — 1. Physiol. the slowest, therefore rate limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps. 2. Biol. an environmental factor that tends to limit population size. * * * … Universalium
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limiting factor — any need such as food, habitat or spawning gravel that is in shortest supply with respect to all resources necessary to sustain life and thus limits the size or retards production of a fish population … Dictionary of ichthyology
