单词 | carrying capacity |
释义 | carrying capacitynoun [mass noun] 1The number or quantity of people or things which can be conveyed by a vehicle or container.In the pre-WWI era many horsecars were replaced with electric trolleys, which still had much lower carrying capacities than a modern train....
1.1 Ecology The number of people, animals, or crops which a region can support without environmental degradation.Without key predators, he adds, prey populations grow beyond the ecosystem's carrying capacity and the entire food chain becomes unbalanced....
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