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Organism Dispersal Range
The range of an organism and its dispersal is limited or affected by many things in its surroundings. These things can be slightly different in their specifics from organism to organism but generally, for all organisms, these are the main restrictions to their range and dispersal (either natal or breeding). The first limiting factor to the distance they can travel from their population or parent is the resources available. One artificial barrier is habitat fragmentation by humans and their use of land and taking of land from the organisms that inhabited it before. Then the last big hindrance to an organisms dispersal range is the climate and changes in the climate. All of these things are the key factors and limitations to an organism's ability to put that distance between them and their current population or their parent organisms.

One of the biggest things that affect the distance an organism can travel away from where it was born or where its population is living now is the resources available in surrounding areas or in their current ecosystem. This is huge in causing organisms to sometimes almost have no dispersal range considering if they are in an isolated area from other
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There are many other things that come into effect when you talk about certain species and organisms but most all organisms' dispersal ranges are affected by the three things that have been mentioned. They are almost all affected by the resources that are accessible to them, the habitat fragmentation by humans and by other factors, and the changing of the climate where they are living. So these were all the limiting factors and things that affected the distance a certain organism in a species can put between itself and its current population or the parent

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