Carrying capacity

Related BrainMass Solutions

• Earth's Carrying Capacity

  533131 Earth's Carrying Capacity The human population recently reached 7 billion people. The carrying capacity or K is dependent on the environment, and the abundance of available limiting resources.

• Human Population Growth Curve

  Initial population size much larger than the carrying capacity (N>>k) When the initial population size is much larger than the carrying capacity (1) the population size decreases until it reaches the carrying capacity and (2) strongly negative growth

• Predicted and actual growth rate.

  Logistic Growth Rate, L = r * [1- population/(carrying capacity)] where r is the base growth rate a) So for 1960, L = 0.021, population = ? , carrying capacity = ? . Plug in and solve for r.

• Network Flow Models, Inventory, Supply and Demand Nodes

  The following table summarizes the monthly production capacity and retail demand (in l000s), and inventory carrying costs (per 1000).

• Carrying capacity

  25539 Carrying capacity of a biologists Biologists stocked a lake with 400 fish and estimated the carrying capacity (the maximal population for the fish of that species in that lake) to be 7000 . The number of fish doubled in the first year.

• Economic Order Quantity: Minimizing Ordering and Inventory Costs

  Its aim is to plan so well that new capacity is added just in time to meet the anticipated need in the most cost-efficient manner (http://searchenterprisewan.techtarget.com/definition/capacity-planning).

• Opinions regarding the importance of human population growth

  Human carrying capacity is therefore dynamic and uncertain. Human choice is not captured by ecological notions of carrying capacity that are appropriate for nonhuman populations.

• Darwin and Evolution

  Populations that are stable have reached the carrying capacity of their environment.

• Annual Cost Savings

  The other cost saved is carrying cost. Reduction in inventory value is (386,000-270,000) = 116,000. The carrying costs are 15% a year. The savings in carrying cost are 116,000 X 15%=$17,400.