In an ecosystem, the things that restrict the growth, size, and/or distribution of the population are known as limiting factors. Some of the biotic limiting factors include the availability of mates, food, predators, and diseases while some of the abiotic limiting factors include climate, wind, sunlight, soil composition, rainfall, pollution, and natural disasters. If there are not enough resources available to an organism, group, or population to sustain themselves, it will lead to starvation of individuals, desiccation and eventually, they will fail to produce offspring.