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Density-Dependent Limiting Factors

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A density-dependent factor's effect on growth rate strengthens as density increases, as when competition for food or disease transmission intensifies in a denser population.

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Disease spreads faster through a dense population than a sparse one, so mortality rises with density.

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A density-dependent factor's effect changes with density — it is not any factor that merely kills many individuals at once.