Dewey Decimal system definition = The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), colloquially the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.
What is the Dewey Decimal system? Well, the definition says it is a proprietary library classification system.
The population would decrease I believe because that means that if there is more organism that an environment can handle that means there won't be enough resources for all of the organism like food that means the population will slowly die off.