In ecology, a priority effect refers to the impact that a particular species can have on community development as a result of its prior arrival at a site...

The Allee effect is a phenomenon in biology characterized by a correlation between population size or density and the mean individual fitness (often measured...

with trophic level over 4 (carnivores that eat other carnivores). This effect, called mesopredator release, occurs in terrestrial and marine ecosystems;...

species have a large effect on ecosystem function, while rare species tend to have a small effect. Keystone species tend to have an effect on ecosystem function...

pattern of occupancy Species-area curve Species discovery curve Storage effect Colwell, Robert K. (2009). "Biodiversity: Concepts, Patterns and Measurement"...

species that make up the ecological community of its habitat (the umbrella effect). Species conservation can be subjective because it is hard to determine...

May 30, 2022. Retrieved May 30, 2022. BioWare. Mass Effect 3. Electronic Arts. Journal - Priority: Mars: Admiral Hackett ordered the Normandy to Mars...

of the effect of pesticides, monocultures and genetically modified crops to see if the anthropogenically created problems can have an effect pollination...

New York, NY: Gale. pp. 118–200. ISBN 978-0-02-865700-4. "DDT Ban Takes Effect". United States Environmental Protection Agency. 1972-12-31. Archived from...

population size Inbreeding depression Human population Metapopulation Rescue effect Holsinger, Kent (2007-09-04). "Types of Stochastic Threats". EEB310: Conservation...

introduced to parts of Britain, continental Europe and South Africa. Its effect on populations of nesting birds is often serious because of consumption...

species are equally abundant in the dataset, changing the value of q has no effect, but species diversity at any value of q equals species richness. Negative...

Primakoff effect (particle physics) Priority effect (ecology) Probe effect (software development philosophies) (system administration) Proteus effect (consciousness)...

theory Occupancy–abundance relationship Population viability analysis Priority effect Rapoport's rule Relative abundance distribution Relative species abundance...

causing humans to continuously fragment landscapes and thus increase the edge effect. This change in landscape ecology is proving to have consequences. Generalist...

rate of the population N to the current population size, incorporating the effect of the two constant parameters r and K. (Note that decrease is negative...

Lawler, S.P., Morin, P.J. (1993). "Temporal overlap, competition, and priority effects in larval anurans". Ecology. 74 (1): 174–182. doi:10.2307/1939512...

A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its natural environment relative to its abundance. The concept was introduced...

species of algae. The relative abundance of nitrogen and phosphorus can in effect determine which species of algae come to dominate. Algae are a very important...

describe, respectively, the maximum prey per capita growth rate, and the effect of the presence of predators on the prey death rate. The predator's parameters...

Foster's rule, also known as the island rule or the island effect, is an ecogeographical rule in evolutionary biology stating that members of a species...

of the seabed. The introduction of alien species can have a devastating effect on native wildlife – through increased predation, through competition for...

develop defenses against herbivores such as chemical defenses. Cascade effect Energy flow (ecology) Marine trophic level Mesopredator release hypothesis...

Without priority inheritance, process M could preempt process L during the critical section and delay its completion, in effect causing the lower-priority process...

of priority during a period of twelve months from the date of filing of the first application. Article 89 EPC describes the effect of the priority right:...

provide winter or year-round homes and food for cormorants. Cormorants' effect on the aquaculture industry is significant, with a dense flock capable of...

encounter with items, h=handling time, e=energy gained per encounter. In effect, this would indicate that a herbivore in a dense forest would spend more...

warm water lagoons and bays with narrow openings to the ocean. A different effect is the thousands of square miles of the ocean which shine with the light...

be regarded as exclusively exploitative or interference. Separating the effect of resource use from that of interference is not easy. A good example of...

connection between functional traits similarity between species and its effect on species co-existence. According to competitive-relatedness hypothesis...