# overpopulation

> when a population of a species exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche

**Wikidata**: [Q7113866](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7113866)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/overpopulation


## References

1. BBC Things
2. ASC Leiden Thesaurus dataset of 5 June 2018
3. [Overpopulation - RationalWiki](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Overpopulation)
4. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)