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Population ecology is the subfield that studies the size, density and growth of a species population and how births, deaths, immigration and emigration change it over time, including how growth is eventually limited by a habitat's carrying capacity, the maximum population size its resources can sustain.

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Population ecology is a field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment.
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