Explain how an environment's carrying capacity affects the intrinsic rate of increase of a population.

Any community, whether stable or not, will never have an infinite number of resources. It will have resources to only feed a certain number of organisms from each species it accommodates. When the population of a species is less than the carrying capacity of an area, then the population of that species will rise abundantly as there will be more resources. But the closer the carrying capacity of a species, the lesser will be the growth rate. If the population if species increases the carrying capacity, then severe competition will begin and the community will become unstable.