will the growth of the human population affect populations of other species?

We already have. That's why some species are extinct. We spread out, destroy their habitats to make room for ours, and then they die because they have no homes and no food. Koalas are threatened in Australia because their habitat is under threat.

Good question...I think I have a complex answer. Short term, it is true that high human population will have an adverse effect on other life forms. The incredible thing about nature though is the regulation control built into the system. As soon as one population gets "out of whack", nature acts to correct the imbalance. This law applies to human beings, just as it does Artic Grey Wolves, Australian Kangaroos, or even common pond algae. We will have human population control one way or the other...world-wide warfare, massive epidemics, planetary starvation...pick your poison. If we do not try to keep our population at reasonable levels, any or all of these can occur and greatly curb our numbers for us. New, better adapted species will develop and fill in where we left off. Nature is unforgiving and yet beautiful beyond belief. I also believe that ALL human life is sacred and should be cherished. We don't need to have eight kids per couple anymore...one or two is a more feasible number.

Yes, human growth will because as the human population grows, the world will reach over our carrying capacity and we will have to build more cities/towns to have homes for everyone to live in and more stores for everyone to get food and jobs at. Since carrying capacity doesn't matter to us, we have mass production, we will keep expanding but the Earth doesn't get bigger so we'll destroy all of the other land to build our homes and by destroying other land, we'll cause habitat destruction. The habitat destruction will mean less homes, water, and energy supplies (plants, other animals) available to all of the organisms which will cause populations to go down when their carrying capacity lowers due to the fewer amount of resources. As well as habitat destruction, a higher population would mean higher rates of pollution because simply not enough people are going green and this would cause any available resources such to become polluted or destroyed, such as lakes becoming acidic or littered with oil, trees and other plants decaying and becoming nutritent-less due to the constant acid rain from factories and even habitat destruction due to garbage humans leave behind, that disturb animals such as the plastic lining on soda cans or any other man-made product that could in any way kill an animal. Hope that was what you were looking for!

It depends on our effects to the environment and the species habitat. What is amazing about us humans is the extent to which we can alter or even damage the population of other species. Such as killing animals for fur, cutting down trees that arboreal animals live in, or even by eating animals with that are limiting in number while the human population increases.

Definitely! We are experiencing a mass extinction that started about 35000 years ago when people first arrived in Australia and killed off most of the large marsupials. When humans arrived in the Western Hemisphere, the humans killed off a lot of species. We are now killing of species, both animal and plant, on both the land and in the sea. The faster our population rises, the faster is the extinction of other species.

The solution to this extinction is human birth control.

Yes in all aspects.

More people means more house development forcing animals to leave their homes. (It's unrelated but their are stories of snakes eating dogs and attack children. Those houses are new and are invading the former homes of those snakes.)

Food wise more animals would be killed to meet demands. ie chickens, cows etc.

Overcrowding of cities and subburbs would occur. Polution would rise as well. More trees would be cut down for housing and such. The higher the human population, the lower the population is for other species.

Yes. I can't remember what it's called, but I remember taking it in science class.

For example:

If the human population increases, the population of the meat we eat will decrease.

But - nature has a way of balancing things out - - usually.

If the human population increases, the population for the plants we eat will also decrease.

See the pattern?

Absolutely look at the devastatiom of the rainforest. I'm not sure of the number but alot of species go extinct everyday. We humans are kind of like viruses. We move to certain areas and then use up all of the rescourses and then move on to trhe next place, and so on. Pretty bad actually.

yes. because as human population will increase, more of the forests will be cut done to have more housing...therefore the species in the forests etc. will become extinct!

indeed, the growth of the human population will effect the animal population in many respects and diverse manerisms. for even if the human population did not expand, i would still eat snickedoodles!!!!!!