Question

What does carrying capacity mean? Can we successfully apply the concept to human population growth? Give reasons for your answer

Answer 1

Answer:

Carrying capacity and how it could be applied to human species and its population growth.

Explanation:

Carrying capacity can be simply known as the maximum sustainable load that environment can hold. Biologically, Carrying Capacity is which the sustainable capacity of the environment to hold a biological species by supplying it with all necessities to live on the environment.

Carrying capacity is applicable for all the species on the planet except human species which are constantly developing with technology and increasing the earth's carrying capacity.

Answer 2

Answer:

Carrying capacity of the biological capacity of the natural ecosystem to carry forwards the maximum species it can sustain.

Explanation:

• The concept was originally used to explain the number of grazing animals that could actively graze on the landscapes. And later was expanded to other more complex human population.

• As human population carrying capacity is higher than any other species on the earth the carbon footprint that man has produces over such a small time has drastically depleted natural resources.
• The carrying capacity can be applied for the natural positive or negative increase. This increases the competition for the food supply, sunlight, and space.

• Human birth and the carrying capacity of the ecosystem are directly related as the food and resource production geometrically takes place as compared to human growth in an arithmetic fashion, thus they weight heavier.