Question

how does carrying capacity impacted environmental degradation ?

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• Population changes may cause several economical, ecological, and social concerns.
• One of such concerns with changing population is the carrying capacity.
• Carrying capacity is defined as the maximum members of a given species in a particular region that can be sustained by the reources of that area for indefinite time period without causing depletion or degredation of those resources.
• It is the number of individuals that can be supported by an ecosystem and does not cause any negative effects including resources limit and pollution levels.
• Determining the carrying capacity for humans is much more complicated then any other organism.
• Upon over-expenditure of carrying capacity, living organisms must be able for adpatation to new consumption levels or must look for an alternative resources.
• Size of human population, resources expenditure, pollution level and resulting environmental degredation affect the carrying capacity.
• It has been stated that human has already crossed the carrying capacity and such overpopulation results in the depletion of shared natural resources.
• Regulating factor helps maintain size of population at equilibrium.
• Natural increase is the difference between the rate of birth and the death rate.
• A positive natural increase is supported by the environment, if a given organisms population is lower then the carrying capacity of a given environment.
• A population of organism higher the the carrying capacity of an environment results in a negative natural increase.
• Thus, carrying capacity can affect space, food supply, sunlight and water availability of an environment.