Garden Dictionary Word: limiting factor

limiting factor

The environmental impact by which the limit of tolerance of an organism is reached, acting as the restriction to one or more functions, or in its geographic distribution, e.g., if a plant dies when frosted, temperature is its limiting factor in a northward spread.

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