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...
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physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecology overlaps with the closely...
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ecophysiology, plant population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, landscape ecology and biosphere ecology. First, most plants are rooted in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Nematomorpha (section Community ecology)
orthopterans as hosts, nematomorphs can be significant factors in shaping community ecology. One study conducted in a Japanese riparian ecosystem showed that...
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interests. In ecology, a community is an assemblage of populations—potentially of different species—interacting with one another. Community ecology is the branch...
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Competition (biology) (redirect from Competition (ecology))
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...
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or Biome – Biogeographical unit with a particular biological community Community (ecology) – Associated populations of species in a given area, or Biocoenosis –...
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rule (also called the resource-ratio hypothesis) is a hypothesis in community ecology that attempts to predict which species will become dominant as the...
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Molecular ecology is a field of evolutionary biology that is concerned with applying molecular population genetics, molecular phylogenetics, and more...
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polyodon, Tmesipteris tannensis, Astelia solandri and Lomaria discolor. Community (ecology) Size-asymmetric competition Ecosystem Habitat Phytosociology Stand...
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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...
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Ecosystem ecology is the integrated study of living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems and their interactions within an ecosystem...
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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...
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Microbial ecology (or environmental microbiology) is the ecology of microorganisms: their relationship with one another and with their environment. It...
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Herbivore (category Ecology terminology)
2005). "LINKING BIOGEOGRAPHY AND COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: LATITUDINAL VARIATION IN PLANT–HERBIVORE INTERACTION STRENGTH". Ecology. 86 (9): 2310–2319. Bibcode:2005Ecol...
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In scientific ecology, climax community or climatic climax community is a historic term for a community of plants, animals, and fungi which, through the...
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In ecology, rarefaction is a technique to assess species richness from the results of sampling. Rarefaction allows the calculation of species richness...
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Insect ecology is the interaction of insects, individually or as a community, with the surrounding environment or ecosystem. Insects play significant...
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Ecological restoration (redirect from Restoration Ecology)
this goal. Community assembly "is a framework that can unify virtually all of (community) ecology under a single conceptual umbrella". Community assembly...
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should be divided into population ecology, community ecology and ecosystem ecology, renaming autecology as 'species ecology' (Odum regarded "autecology" as...
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Roe deer (section Community ecology)
roe deer, Capreolus pygargus, in central and peripheral populations". Ecology and Evolution. 2016 (20): 7286–7297. Bibcode:2016EcoEv...6.7286L. doi:10...
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Evolutionary ecology lies at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology. It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers...
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In ecology, a disturbance is a temporary change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Disturbances often act quickly...
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dominated wetland forests of the Baltic Region: community structure, syntaxonomy and conservation". Plant Ecology. 129 (1): 49–94. doi:10.1023/A:1009759701364...
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Cleveland, Cory C. (13 October 2009). "Global patterns in belowground communities". Ecology Letters. 12 (11): 1238–1249. Bibcode:2009EcolL..12.1238F. doi:10...
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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...
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Apex predator (section Effects on community)
limited by interference and exploitive competition with humans". Global Ecology and Conservation. 20: e00758. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00758. ISSN 2351-9894...
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