Carrying capacity
MAXIMUM POPULATION SIZE OF THE SPECIES THAT THE ENVIRONMENT CAN SUSTAIN INDEFINITELY
Ecological load; Carrying capacity (biology); Carying capacity; Carrying capacity overshoot; Carrying-capacity; Carrying Capacity; Carrying capacity of the Earth; Carrying capacities; Appropriated carrying capacity
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. 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 well as immigration and emigration).