Instead of growing explosively, population growth tends to level off because the population reaches the carrying capacity of a particular environment. Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals that an environment can sustainably support, given its resources such as food, water, and habitat. As resources become limited, factors such as competition, predation, and disease increase, leading to a stabilization of population size. Consequently, populations oscillate around this carrying capacity rather than continuing to grow indefinitely.
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