Carrying capacity

 Carrying capacity

It is the highest number of organisms that a given habitat area can support forever without causing habitat degradation and a social stress that will reduce the population. This concept is used for various ecological relationships. 

Examples of this are as follows: 

(i) the number of wild (natural) animals that can be housed in a unit area in terms of feeding and housing conditions without disturbing the productivity and ecological balance of a living space; 

(ii) the number of grazing animals which, according to the type of grazing animals and their food demand, the pasture in the unit area can normally accommodate; 

(iii) the maximum agricultural yield that can be achieved by measures implemented without degradation of a site, and 

(iv) the highest number of inhabitants in the unit of space of residential or recreational areas that can provide normal living conditions for people.