population pressure

American  

noun

Ecology.

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

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Etymology

Origin of population pressure

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

With an increasing global population, pressure on the already over-exploited wild salmon stocks is set to intensify.

From Salon

Furthermore, he explains why: as popular immiseration rises due to population pressure, people flee the land for the cities, where the elites' rising fortunes generate demand for urban labor "in crafts and trades but also as servants for the wealthy" as well as for luxury goods.

From Salon

The effect of all that activity is to reduce population pressure for the carp to seek new habitat, which is important because, according to the current plan, actual construction on the project doesn't begin until October 2024, and won't be complete until July 2029.

From Salon

Communities are already struggling in the face of worsening droughts, extreme weather and other consequences of climate disruption—and population pressure makes adaptation even harder.

From Scientific American

And frankly, some of the other areas people have been moving to could use a break from relentless population pressure.

From Washington Post