carrying capacity of the environment
1Carrying capacity — The supportable population of an organism, given the food, habitat, water and other necessities available within an environment is known as the environment s carrying capacity for that organism. For the human population, more complex variables… …
2carrying capacity — /ˈkæriɪŋ kəpæsəti/ (say kareeing kuhpasuhtee) noun 1. the capacity of land or pasture to support livestock: *the rent was based on the carrying capacity of the land for sheep or cattle. –al grassby and marji hill, 1988. 2. the capacity of an… …
3carrying capacity — Ecol. the maximum, equilibrium number of organisms of a particular species that can be supported indefinitely in a given environment. Abbr.: K [1880 85] * * * ▪ biology the average population density or population size of a species below… …
4carrying capacity — quantity of items a container can hold; maximum number of people a vehicle can accomodate; amount of animals a region can hold; number of living things that can live for long periods in a given area without causing harm to the environment… …
5Tourism carrying capacity — is an approach to managing visitors to protected areas and national parks which evolved out of the fields of range, habitat and wildlife management. In these fields, managers attempted to determine the largest population of a particularly species …
6carrying capacity — the idea that any given environment can only support a finite population. Originating in ecology for plant communities, social geographers have tried to apply the idea to human populations …
7carrying capacity — 1) the biomass of a population or the number and type of species that a given environment can sustain over the long term. May refer to level of use, at a given level of management, which a natural or man made resource can sustain itself over long …
8carrying capacity — noun a) The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry b) The number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support …
9carrying capacity — car′rying capac ity n. ecl the maximum population of a species that can be supported in a given environment Symbol: K • Etymology: 1880–85 …
10Air transport and the environment (United Kingdom) — Increasing demand for air travel in the UK has resulted in a conflict between the desire to cater for that demand and the environmental consequences of doing so. In the past 25 years the UK air transport industry has seen sustained growth, and… …
