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will tend to escape a bounded container. Similarly, "population pressure" in animal populations in general usually leads to
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of the environment goes down, unchanged population numbers may prove too high and again produce significant pressure.
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in which many individuals die, and better-adapted variants are more likely to survive and to reproduce.
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Juliann E. Aukema; Narcisa G. Pricope; Gregory J. Husak; David Lopez-Carr (2017).
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that suffer from too many individuals per area (or volume in the case of
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Term used to describe the effects of unsustainable population growth
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by otherwise-normal population densities. Similarly, when the
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and its consequences, is used both in conjunction with
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Index

population density
human overpopulation
animal populations
aquatic organisms
overexploitation
overconsumption
environmental degradation
carrying capacity
pressure
migration
land loss
land conversion
development
reduction
extinction
Thomas Malthus
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Charles Darwin
struggle for existence
Malthusian catastrophe
Population growth
Overshoot (population)
Sustainable population
"Population Pressure - an overview"
ScienceDirect
"World population growth: Are we too many?"
"Biodiversity Areas under Threat: Overlap of Climate Change and Population Pressures on the Worlds Biodiversity Priorities"
Bibcode
2017PLoSO..1270615A
doi

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