SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Question
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the capacity of what one person can carry per day
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how many animals you have in your daily bag limit at the end of the year
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wildebeest at a watering hole with zebras
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the maximum number of individuals that the environment can support
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Detailed explanation-1: -The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available.
Detailed explanation-2: -Carrying capacity is the maximum number of a species an environment can support indefinitely. Every species has a carrying capacity, even humans. However, it is very difficult for ecologists to calculate human carrying capacity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Carrying capacity can be defined as a species’ average population size in a particular habitat. The species population size is limited by environmental factors like adequate food, shelter, water, and mates.
Detailed explanation-4: -The term carrying capacity refers to the maximum population size of species which can be supported or sustained in a given area or ecosystem.
Detailed explanation-5: -In logistic growth, a population’s per capita growth rate gets smaller and smaller as population size approaches a maximum imposed by limited resources in the environment, known as the carrying capacity ( K).