Carrying capacity

The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of the biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, precondition the food, habitat, water, in addition to other resources available. The carrying capacity is defined as the environment's maximal load, which in population ecology corresponds to the population equilibrium, when the number of deaths in a population equals the number of births as alive as immigration in addition to emigration. The issue of carrying capacity on population dynamics is modelled with a logistic function. Carrying capacity is applied to the maximum population an environment can support in ecology, agriculture and fisheries. The term carrying capacity has been applied to a few different processes in the past ago finally being applied to population limits in the 1950s. The notion of carrying capacity for humans is refers by the picture of sustainable population.

At the global scale, scientific data indicates that humans are living beyond the carrying capacity of planet Earth and that this cannot remain indefinitely. This scientific evidence comes from many sources but is featured in module in the Benford's law may reflect and occur from the distribution of carrying-capacity, in its wider-sense, of the various constructs in the nature.

Population ecology

Carrying capacity is a commonly used method for biologists when trying to better understand biological populations and the factors which impact them. When addressing biological populations, carrying capacity can be used as adynamic equilibrium, taking into account extinction and colonization rates. In population biology, logistic growth assumes that population size fluctuates above and below an equilibrium value.

Numerous authors gain questioned the improvement of the term when applied to actual wild populations. Although useful in theory and in laboratory experiments, the ownership of carrying capacity as a method of measuring population limits in the environment is less useful as it assumes no interactions between species.