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

an ecosystem.: 324  An ecosystem engineer is any organism that creates, significantly modifies, maintains or destroys a habitat. Ecosystem ecology is...

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

these two ecosystems form the more general study area of freshwater or aquatic ecology. The following unifying characteristics make the ecology of running...

especially ecosystems. Systems ecology can be seen as an application of general systems theory to ecology. Central to the systems ecology approach is...

An ecosystem engineer is any species that creates, significantly modifies, maintains or destroys a habitat. These organisms can have a large impact on...

aquatic ecosystem is an ecosystem found in and around a body of water, in contrast to land-based terrestrial ecosystems. Aquatic ecosystems contain communities...

A lake ecosystem or lacustrine ecosystem includes biotic (living) plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (non-living) physical and chemical...

An ecosystem, short for ecological system, is defined as a collection of interacting organisms within a biophysical environment.: 458  Ecosystems are never...

Energy flow is the flow of energy through living things within an ecosystem. All living organisms can be organized into producers and consumers, and those...

In ecology, the term productivity refers to the rate of generation of biomass in an ecosystem, usually expressed in units of mass per volume (unit surface)...

process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed." Restoration ecology is the academic study of the science...

the biosphere, Arthur Tansley's ecosystem, Charles Elton's Animal Ecology, and Henry Cowles ecological succession. Ecology influenced the social sciences...

"Information ecology" often is used as metaphor, viewing the information space as an ecosystem, the information ecosystem. Information ecology also makes...

Together, these two ecosystems form the more general study area of freshwater or aquatic ecology. A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers...

Ecosystem diversity deals with the variations in ecosystems within a geographical location and its overall impact on human existence and the environment...

research, particularly in trophic ecology, and continue to provoke important ideas that are relevant beyond this unique ecosystem. For example, kelp forests...

A marine coastal ecosystem is a marine ecosystem which occurs where the land meets the ocean. Worldwide there is about 620,000 kilometres (390,000 mi)...

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

was an American ecologist. He is known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology, and for his provocative proposals for additional laws of thermodynamics...

by a river. lake ecosystem lake stratification landscape ecology An interdisciplinary branch of ecology combining aspects of ecology, botany, biogeography...

Fire ecology is a scientific discipline concerned with the effects of fire on natural ecosystems. Many ecosystems, particularly prairie, savanna, chaparral...

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In ecology, local abundance is the relative representation of a species in a particular ecosystem. It is usually measured as the number of individuals...

behavior and group dynamics, food webs, ecosystems, spatial ecology, and the effects of climate change. Theoretical ecology has further benefited from the advent...

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

maintain kelp forests, which are vital for other species within the ecosystem. Ecology portal Heterotroph Lithotroph Ecological pyramid Predator-prey interaction...

2010). "Plant diversity enhances provision of ecosystem services: A new synthesis". Basic and Applied Ecology. 11 (7): 582–593. Bibcode:2010BApEc..11..582Q...