Editing Carrying capacity (section)

==Population ecology ==
{{Main|Population ecology|Population dynamics}}
{{See also|Ecological overshoot}}
Carrying capacity is a commonly used concept for [[biologist]]s when trying to better understand biological populations and the factors which affect them.<ref name="Chapman-2018"/> When addressing biological populations, carrying capacity can be seen as a stable dynamic equilibrium, taking into account extinction and colonization rates.<ref name="Storch-2019"/> In [[population biology]], logistic growth assumes that population size fluctuates above and below an equilibrium value.<ref name="Seidl-1999">{{cite journal |last1=Seidl |first1=Irmi |last2=Tisdell |first2=Clem A |title=Carrying capacity reconsidered: from Malthus' population theory to cultural carrying capacity |journal=Ecological Economics |date=December 1999 |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=395–408 |doi=10.1016/S0921-8009(99)00063-4 |bibcode=1999EcoEc..31..395S |url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:10486/ei_4_98.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821010236/http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:10486/ei_4_98.pdf |archive-date=2017-08-21 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Numerous authors have questioned the usefulness of the term when applied to actual wild populations.<ref name=Dhondt1988/><ref name=McLeod1997/><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hui|first1=C|year=2006|title=Carrying capacity, population equilibrium, and environment's maximal load|journal=Ecological Modelling|volume=192|issue=1–2|pages=317–320|doi=10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.07.001|bibcode=2006EcMod.192..317H}}</ref> Although useful in theory and in laboratory experiments, carrying capacity as a method of measuring population limits in the environment is less useful as it sometimes oversimplifies the interactions between species.<ref name="Storch-2019"/>