In a forest, an example of a limiting factor is that lack of sunlight.
Limiting factors in an ecosystems are the that factors usually made up of environment resources that affects the growth and abundance of organisms in an ecosystem.
Examples are sunlight, water, nutrient, air etc
In a forest, sunlight is one of the limiting factors.
Forest vegetation are stratified.
The broad leaved canopy trees dominates and receives the bulk of the sunlight.
The undergrowth beneath competes for the little sunlight that reaches below for their own use.
Distributions of sunlight in an ecosystem affects the way in which vegetation are dispersed.