carrying capacity, definition of

The amount of animal or plant life (or industry) that can be supported indefinitely on available resources; the number of individuals that the resources of a habitat can support. Also called biological carrying capacity.

• Steven W. Running On Empty
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Let me start by getting the jargon out of the way. The “NPP” is the “net primary productivity”. It is how many total tonnes of new plant matter are produced around the globe each year … Continue...
• Peak Oil, Carrying Capacity and Overshoot: Population, the Elephant in the Room - Revisited
  This is a guest post by GliderGuider. It was originally posted in May 2007. This post presents one model of what the future may look like. There are other, less dire, views as well.
• Long term agricultural overshoot
  This is a guest post by Peter Salonius, a Canadian soil microbiologist, that was originally posted in October 2008.