# Carrying Capacity > **Machine-Evolution Nexus:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] provides the evolutionary and computational context for this supporting concept. **Domain:** Ecology / Population **Doc Type:** Supporting Canonical Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Carrying capacity is the population level an environment can sustain under specified resources, technology, interactions and time horizon. ## Nexus Context In artificial ecologies, memory, processor time and energy create carrying capacities that shape competition and reproduction. ## Relationships [[wiki/Resource Constraint|Resource Constraint]], [[wiki/Population Dynamics|Population Dynamics]], [[wiki/Ecological Niche|Ecological Niche]], [[wiki/Digital Population|Digital Population]] ## Sources / Provenance - Developed from the cited research in the central article and the surrounding continuity, rights and evolutionary architecture.