In ecology, a community is a group or association of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area at the same time...

their environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecology overlaps with the closely...

Ecology is a new science and considered as an important branch of biological science, having only become prominent during the second half of the 20th...

or Biome – Biogeographical unit with a particular biological community Community (ecology) – Associated populations of species in a given area, or Biocoenosis –...

These measures are all a part of community ecology. Understanding patterns within a community is easy when the community has a relatively low number of...

In scientific ecology, climax community or climatic climax community is a historic term for a community of plants, animals, and fungi which, through the...

Ecosystem ecology is the integrated study of living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems and their interactions within an ecosystem...

Molecular ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that is concerned with applying molecular genetic techniques to ecological questions (e.g., population...

polyodon, Tmesipteris tannensis, Astelia solandri and Lomaria discolor. Community (ecology) Size-asymmetric competition Ecosystem Habitat Phytosociology Stand...

interests. In ecology, a community is an assemblage of populations—potentially of different species—interacting with one another. Community ecology is the branch...

papers on plant ecology (including algae) in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. In addition to population and community ecology, articles on biogeochemistry...

orthopterans as hosts, nematomorphs can be significant factors in shaping community ecology. One study conducted in a Japanese riparian ecosystem showed that...

the amount of the resource available to the other. In the study of community ecology, competition within and between members of a species is an important...

This glossary of ecology is a list of definitions of terms and concepts in ecology and related fields. For more specific definitions from other glossaries...

Landscape ecology is the science of studying and improving relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems. This...

group (ecology) Look up guild in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An ecological niche is defined as the role an organism plays in its community, i.e. decomposer...

rule (also called the resource-ratio hypothesis) is a hypothesis in community ecology that attempts to predict which species will become dominant as the...

roe deer, Capreolus pygargus, in central and peripheral populations". Ecology and Evolution. 2016 (20): 7286–7297. Bibcode:2016EcoEv...6.7286L. doi:10...

this goal. Community assembly "is a framework that can unify virtually all of (community) ecology under a single conceptual umbrella". Community assembly...

In ecology, the competitive exclusion principle, sometimes referred to as Gause's law, is a proposition that two species which compete for the same limited...

ecophysiology, plant population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, landscape ecology and biosphere ecology. First, most plants are rooted in...

Theoretical ecology is the scientific discipline devoted to the study of ecological systems using theoretical methods such as simple conceptual models...

Cleveland, Cory C. (13 October 2009). "Global patterns in belowground communities". Ecology Letters. 12 (11): 1238–1249. Bibcode:2009EcolL..12.1238F. doi:10...

should be divided into population ecology, community ecology and ecosystem ecology, renaming autecology as 'species ecology' (Odum regarded "autecology" as...

Physical quantity Lindeman RL (1942). "The Trophic-Dynamic Aspect of Ecology" (PDF). Ecology. 23 (4): 399–417. Bibcode:1942Ecol...23..399L. doi:10.2307/1930126...

Evolutionary ecology lies at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology. It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers...

The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) is the ecological component of the more general Metabolic Scaling Theory and Kleiber's law. It posits that the metabolic...

Insect ecology is the interaction of insects, individually or as a community, with the surrounding environment or ecosystem. This interaction is mostly...

Microbial ecology (or environmental microbiology) is the ecology of microorganisms: their relationship with one another and with their environment. It...

In ecology, rarefaction is a technique to assess species richness from the results of sampling. Rarefaction allows the calculation of species richness...