population pressure

noun Ecology.

the force exerted by a growing population upon its environment, resulting in dispersal or reduction of the population.

Origin of population pressure

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby population pressure

population control, population explosion, population genetics, population inversion, population parameter, population pressure, population pyramid, populism, populist, populist party, populist shop steward

Example sentences from the Web for population pressure

  • Why are the means of regulating families made known to us if we are not to use them when population-pressure becomes acute?

    Modern marriage and how to bear it |Maud Churton Braby