Bio-capacity

• The capacity of ecosystems to produce useful biological materials and to absorb waste materials generated by humans, using current management schemes and extraction technologies.
• The capacity of a given territory reflects its specific natural potential in terms of available resources under given management skills. It is Expressed in ha per capaita.

Carrying capacity:

• The carrying capacity of a biological species in a given environment is the maximum population size of this species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available.
• If the population size of the species is over its carrying capacity, the environment will be degraded more or less quickly and consequently will not sustain the population which in turn will decrease.
• Moreover, if the environment itself has its resources decreasing in reason of abiotic causes, the carrying capacity will decrease.