apu scin130 forum 4

Human Population

Forum Instructions: For this assignment you must reply to this post and provide answers to the questions below, prior to 11:55 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday.
Continue to follow your classmates' posts for the remainder of the week and post at least 2 follow-up messages to your classmates' posts prior to 11:55 PM Eastern Time Sunday. Your follow-up posts can add additional insight to your classmates’ opinions and can challenge their opinions. Be sure to read the follow-up posts to your own posts and reply to any questions or requests for clarification.

You should conduct research on the topic of discussion and use this research to support your answers. You can use Internet articles, journals, text books, etc. In fact, I strongly recommend that you utilize the APUS Online Library for your research as they offer a plethora of reliable and pertinent research sources. You may access the Online Library by clicking on the “Library” link on the menu bar to the left inside the electronic classroom. However, NEVER use Wikipedia for your research as anyone can alter the information on this site making it a poor source of accurate information. Be sure to list your references at the end of your post, include in-text citations where applicable, and be sure that both are in APA format.
In our current lab, “Population Biology,” we are learning the principle of competitive exclusion: that no twospeciescan occupy the same niche. Now, let’s take this concept and expand it to the scale of the entire Earth. The human population recently reached 7 billion people. Do you feel we are nearing the Earth's carrying capacity for our species? Discuss any impacts the exponential growth of our species could have on otherspeciesand their habitat. Finally, explain what you could do to reverse the trend of competitive exclusion by humans so that we do not exhaust the limited resources of the Earth?

Don’t forget to back up your arguments with properly cited references.


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