For most species, there are four variables that factor into calculating carrying capacity: food availability, water supply, living space, and environmental conditions. Even with this relatively basic ...

Sustainability is a buzzword about environmental balance ... Estimating the carrying capacity of a planet is an inexact science because of the extreme complexity and nonlinearity of the components ...

Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses ... Contributions to Science 11(1): 75–83. Seidl, I. and C.A. Tisdell. 1999. Carrying capacity reconsidered: from Malthus’ population ...

However, competition for shelter and food aren't the only factors that determine a particular species' carrying capacity, it also depends upon environmental factors not necessarily caused by ...

But environmental changes, such as pollution or disease, can increase or decrease a habitat's carrying capacity ... told Live Science. "If you have a ratio of two children per couple, then ...

The water levels in the Dead Sea - the deepest point on Earth - are dropping at an alarming rate with serious environmental ... need a significant carrying capacity to re-fill the Dead Sea to ...