11. What is biotic potential?

Biotic potential, the maximum reproductive capacity of an organism under optimum environmental conditions. It is often expressed as a proportional or percentage increase per year, as in the statement “The human population increased by 3 percent last year.” It can also be expressed as the time it takes for a population to double in size (doubling time). In disease-related studies it is comparable to the “force of infection,” the number of susceptible individuals each infected individual further infects.

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