If a population exceeds the carrying capacity, births outnumber deaths

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False. If a population exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment, it typically leads to a situation where resources become scarce, which can cause an increase in death rates, a decrease in birth rates, or both, ultimately resulting in a decline in the population size toward the carrying capacity. In the long term, births usually do not outnumber deaths in such a scenario.