English Dictionary

carrying capacity

noun

(transport) The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry. / (ecology) The number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support.

The carrying capacity of the ecosystem determines the maximum number of individuals it can support.

意味（1）

(transport) The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry.

意味（2）

(ecology) The number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support.

With their populations adjusted to the carrying capacity of the environment, hunters and gatherers rarely starve, for they are not dependent on the fortunes of a single crop.