The possible limiting factor is the devastation by the pine bark beetle.
A limiting factor is any factor that affects the size of a population of organisms which inhibits their growth or even existence.
The possible limiting factor of population of lodgepole pines is the devastation by the pine bark beetle.
This is so because only a section of the population was affected and not the whole.
If it was the Colorado’s long history of acidic soils, genetic variability and shallow root system, the whole population of lodgepole pines would have been affected.
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