carrying capacity of area

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• Carrying capacity — The supportable population of an organism, given the food, habitat, water and other necessities available within an environment is known as the environment s carrying capacity for that organism. For the human population, more complex variables… …   Wikipedia

• carrying capacity — noun : the population (as of one species of animal) that a given area (as of water or pasture) will support without undergoing deterioration when deer herds are allowed to exceed the carrying capacity, permanent damage to woodland results a… …   Useful english dictionary

• carrying capacity — noun Date: 1889 the maximum population (as of deer) that an area will support without undergoing deterioration …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• carrying capacity — quantity of items a container can hold; maximum number of people a vehicle can accomodate; amount of animals a region can hold; number of living things that can live for long periods in a given area without causing harm to the environment… …   English contemporary dictionary

• Tourism carrying capacity — is an approach to managing visitors to protected areas and national parks which evolved out of the fields of range, habitat and wildlife management. In these fields, managers attempted to determine the largest population of a particularly species …   Wikipedia

• Stevens Pass Ski Area — Infobox ski area name = Stevens Pass Ski Area picture = caption = location = Skykomish, Washington, US nearest city = Leavenworth 37 miles (89 km) east lat d = long d = top elevation = 5,845 ft (Cowboy Mountain) 5,600 (Big Chief Mountain) base… …   Wikipedia

• Species-area curve — The species area relationship for a contiguous habitat In ecology, a species area curve is a relationship between the area of a habitat, or of part of a habitat, and the number of species found within that area. Larger areas tend to contain… …   Wikipedia

• Southern Maya area — ; accordingly, in consideration of the multilingual character of the SMA, in many ways Southern Maya Area is a misnomer. [Love and Kaplan (in press) point out that scholarship has been deficient in studying the SMA as a cultural area unto itself …   Wikipedia

• grazing capacity — noun : the carrying capacity of a pasture or area of range usually expressed as the number of animals (as cattle or deer) that it will support for a specified length of time or indefinitely …   Useful english dictionary

• Bay Area Rapid Transit — Infobox Public transit name = Bay Area Rapid Transit imagesize = 100px locale = San Francisco Bay Area transit type = Rapid transit began operation = September 11, 1972 system length = convert|104|mi|km|abbr=on lines = 5 stations = 43 (1 under… …   Wikipedia

• Work Capacity Test — The pack test, also known more officially as the Work Capacity Test (WCT), is a U.S. Forest Service physical test for wildland firefighters. The pack test is intentionally stressful as it tests the capacity of muscular strength and aerobic… …   Wikipedia