biotic potential

Biotic potential is the maximum reproductive capacity of a population if resources are unlimited.

Full expression of the biotic potential of an organism is restricted by environmental resistance, any condition that inhibits the increase in number of the population.

Biotic potential is the highest possible vital index of a species; therefore, when the species has its highest birthrate and lowest mortality rate.

A species reaching its biotic potential would exhibit exponential population growth and be said to have a high fertility, that is, how many offspring are produced per mother.

Reproductive potential - potential natality: It is the upper limit to biotic potential (in the absence of mortality)

One of his long-serving subordinates, Paul Grayson, is a troubled drug addict who was assigned with raising an infant girl with huge biotic potential, Gillian.

In the subtropics the epidemiology is similar to that of Haemonchus though Cooperia does not have the same high biotic potential and the L3 survive rather better under arid conditions.

To the Editor: Ethanol is simply the latest in the long string of disastrous agribusiness strategies that squander the planet's biotic potential as surely as the pillage of fossil fuels threatens the very survival of mankind.

The fringing reef becomes a barrier reef for the reason that the outer part of the reef maintains itself near sea level through Biotic potential growth, while the inner part of the reef falls behind, becoming a lagoon because conditions are less favorable for the corals and calcareous algae responsible for most reef growth.