carrying capacity

English

Noun

carrying capacity (plural carrying capacities)

1. (transport) The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry.
2. (ecology) The number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 120:

     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.

Derived terms

• K (the standard abbreviation)

Translations

number of people or things that a vehicle can carry

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 環境承載力／环境承载力 (huánjìng chéngzàilì)

• Danish: lasteevne c
• Finnish: kuljetuskyky
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Transportkapazität f
• Indonesian: kapasitas angkat
• Malay: kapasiti angkut, kapasiti simpan, kapasiti pembawaan
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: capacidade de carga f
• Romanian: capacitate de încărcare f
• Spanish: capacidad de carga f

number of individuals that an environment can support

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 環境承載力／环境承载力 (huánjìng chéngzàilì)

• Danish: bæreevne c
• Finnish: kantokyky (fi)
• French: capacité porteuse f
• German: Tragfähigkeit (de) f
• Indonesian: daya dukung (id), kapasitas dukung, kapasitas angkat, daya muat (id)
• Malay: kapasiti angkut, kapasiti simpan, kapasiti pembawaan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bæreevne m or f

• Portuguese: capacidade de carga f
• Romanian: capacitate de susținere f
• Spanish: capacidad de persistencia f, capacidad de carga f
• Swedish: bärkraft (sv) c

See also

• biocapacity
• ecological footprint
• overshoot

Further reading

• carrying capacity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia