Homework

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. 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 two species can 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 other species and 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.