A severe flood brings a lot of sediment and silt into Lake Winnipeg. The turbidity of the lake increases greatly. Limiting factor? Explain

A limiting factor plays a major role in an ecosystem to limit the population, growth and distribution of an organism. Flood is a density-independent factor.

Explanation:

The limiting factor can be understood easily using these two concepts.

1) Density-independent factor: This factor usually affects the population irrespective of density. Flood and earthquake are some of the density independent factor that influences on the population size regardless of the population's density.

2) Density dependent factor: The effect of the density dependent factor varies with the variation in the population density. Disease, availability of food and predation are the major density dependent factor.