Ecological indicators are used to communicate information about ecosystems and the impact human activity has on ecosystems to groups such as the public...

Genuine progress indicator (GPI) is a metric that has been suggested to replace, or supplement, gross domestic product (GDP). The GPI is designed to take...

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M; Grazi, Fabio (2014). "Ecological Footprint Policy? Land Use as an Environmental Indicator". Journal of Industrial Ecology. 18 (1):...

and use indicator species to monitor ecological change? Insights from 14 years of publication in Ecological Indicators". Ecological Indicators. 60: 223–230...

OECD. One subset of environmental indicators is the collection of ecological indicators which can include physical, biological and chemical measures such...

Indicator organisms are used as a proxy to monitor conditions in a particular environment, ecosystem, area, habitat, or consumer product. Certain bacteria...

ecological indicators such as the footprint. It can also be used as a decision-making tool for governments and corporations. The idea of ecological footprints...

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system formed by organisms in interaction with their environment.: 458  The biotic and abiotic components are...

ecological indicators, sometimes requiring further consideration of environmental indicators. In public health study, one relies on health indicators...

(pressures, conditions and responses) Ecological indicator of ecosystem health (ecological processes) Health indicator, which is used to describe the health...

relating to adaptation and natural selection are cornerstones of modern ecological theory. Ecosystems are dynamically interacting systems of organisms, the...

indirect, through intermediaries such as shared resources, territories, ecological services, metabolic waste, toxins or growth inhibitors. This type of relationship...

An ecological pyramid (also trophic pyramid, Eltonian pyramid, energy pyramid, or sometimes food pyramid) is a graphical representation designed to show...

be apex predators as their behavior cannot be observed, and clues to ecological relationships, such as bite marks on bones or shells, do not form a complete...

Density-dependent inhibition Ecological effects of biodiversity Ecological extinction Endemic species Flagship species Gradient analysis Indicator species Introduced...

(PDF) from the original on 10 September 2008. Stanley, S. M. (1973). "An ecological theory for the sudden origin of multicellular life in the Late Precambrian"...

ecosystems over the whole planet. Ecological diversity includes the variation in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Ecological diversity can also take into...

in physiognomy (physical appearance of a plant species) can be a key indicator. Water bodies, such as estuaries, can also have a region of transition...

their ecology, evolution and biogeography, as well as their potential as indicators of the availability of permanent hydrocarbon- based energy sources. In...

Species richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region. Species richness is simply a count of...

vulnerable, and is a federally threatened, flagship species and ecological indicator within the Florida Everglades World Heritage Site. The American crocodile...

Density-dependent inhibition Ecological effects of biodiversity Ecological extinction Endemic species Flagship species Gradient analysis Indicator species Introduced...

Ecological succession is the process of how species compositions change in an ecological community over time. The two main categories of ecological succession...

Density-dependent inhibition Ecological effects of biodiversity Ecological extinction Endemic species Flagship species Gradient analysis Indicator species Introduced...

Keystone species play a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community, affecting many other organisms in an ecosystem and helping...

Community-Level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning", Advances in Ecological Research, Trait-Based Ecology – From Structure to Function, vol. 52, Academic...

extra energy while carrying these passengers.[citation needed] Like all ecological interactions, commensalisms vary in strength and duration from intimate...

this, physical characteristics such as tooth morphology may be reliable indicators of diet in mammals, with such morphological adaptation having been observed...

variable providing a measure of the passage of energy and an index of ecological structure that increases through the linkages from the lowest to the highest...

Ecological threshold is the point at which a relatively small change or disturbance in external conditions causes a rapid change in an ecosystem. When...