Ecosystem carrying capacity | Earth Processes | meriSTEM
Channel: meriSTEM Education
Date: 2021-09-22

Jenny Evans (PhD candidate) from the Australian National University (anu.edu.au) provides an overview of what ecosystem carrying capacity is. This is part of a series of videos on how energy and biogeochemical processes interact with each other.

This clip has been created by the Research School of Earth Sciences (rses.anu.edu.au). These resources are part of a comprehensive program, curriculum matched to the unit 'Unit 2 Earth processes – energy transfers and transformations.' 

This video touches on the following curriculum descriptors: 
The availability of energy and matter are one of the main determinants of ecosystem carrying capacity; that is, the number of organisms that can be supported in an ecosystem (ACSES054)

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