<P> Dobenecks used the image of a barrel--often called Liebig's barrel--to explain Liebig's law . Just as the capacity of a barrel with staves of unequal length is limited by the shortest stave, so a plant's growth is limited by the nutrient in shortest supply . </P> <P> If a system satisfies the law of the minimum then adaptation will equalize the load of different factors because the adaptation resource will be allocated for compensation of limitation . Adaptation system acts as a cooper of Liebig's barrel and repairs the shortest stave to improve the barrel capacity . Indeed, in well - adapted systems the limiting factor should be compensated as far as this is possible . This observation follows the concept of resource competition and fitness maximization . </P> <P> Due to the law of the minimum paradoxes, if we observe the Law of the Minimum in artificial systems, then under natural conditions adaptation will equalize the load of different factors and we can expect a violation of the law of the minimum . Inversely, if artificial systems demonstrate significant violation of the law of the minimum, then we can expect that under natural conditions adaptation will compensate this violation . In a limited system life will adjust as an Evolution of what came before . * </P> <P> One example of technological innovation is in plant genetics whereby the biological characteristics of species can be changed by employing genetic modification to alter biological dependence on the most limiting resource . Biotechnological innovations are thus able to extend the limits for growth in species by an increment until a new limiting factor is established, which can then be challenged through technological innovation . </P>

The law of the minimum and the law of return are mutually exclusive
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