Functional ecology is a branch of ecology that focuses on the roles, or functions, that species play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur...
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vulnerable, can protect ecosystems as a whole. Guild (ecology) "Chapter 2: Functional Groups." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 9-25. Print...
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In ecology, functional equivalence (or functional redundancy) is the ecological phenomenon that multiple species representing a variety of taxonomic groups...
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Functional Ecology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering physiological, behavioural, and evolutionary ecology, as well as ecosystems and...
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and sedges) Plankton Saprophytes Shrubs Trees Vines Piscivores Functional group (ecology) Look up guild in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An ecological...
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Ecology (from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) 'house' and -λογία (-logía) 'study of') is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and...
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the West, Brown & Enquist model of the allometry of metabolism". Functional Ecology. 20 (2): 394–399. Bibcode:2006FuEco..20..394E. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435...
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Consumer (food chain) (redirect from Consumption (ecology))
ecology Functional ecology Industrial ecology Macroecology Microecosystem Natural environment Regime shift Sexecology Systems ecology Urban ecology Theoretical...
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Problem of Species-Sampling. Journal of Ecology, Vol. 55, No. 2, Jul., 1967, pp. 525-538, Journal of Ecology, British Ecological Society, JSTOR 2257891...
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economically viable commodity production. A major focus of ecosystem ecology is on functional processes, ecological mechanisms that maintain the structure and...
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regulators of soil C dynamics in ecosystems under global change". Functional Ecology. 22 (6): 955–963. Bibcode:2008FuEco..22..955T. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435...
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controls on specific leaf area are little modified by leaf allometry". Functional Ecology. 22 (4): 565–576. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01406.x. Freschet G...
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Autotroph (redirect from Producer (Ecology))
Isotopes to Estimate Trophic Position: Models, Methods, and Assumptions". Ecology. 83 (3): 703–718. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0703:USITET]2.0.CO;2....
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behavioral ecology, evolutionary ecology, functional ecology, landscape ecology, mathematical ecology, molecular ecology, physiological ecology (or ecophysiology)...
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Journal of Applied Ecology awards the Southwood Prize. Journal of Ecology Journal of Animal Ecology Functional Ecology Methods in Ecology and Evolution "Author...
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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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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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"Linking Keystone Species and Functional Groups: A New Operational Definition of the Keystone Species Concept". Conservation Ecology. 7. doi:10.5751/ES-00502-0701r11...
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Arbuscular mycorrhiza (redirect from AMF (ecology))
microbial ecology. This method can also be used independently of classical culture methods in microbial ecology, allowing for in situ analysis of functional microbes...
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Physiology Comprehensive Physiology Ecology Evolution Archived 2006-04-25 at the Wayback Machine Functional Ecology Integrative and Comparative Biology...
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In biology and ecology, abiotic components or abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms...
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(Subscription or participating institution membership required.) "The Ecology of Story: Revealing Hidden Characters of the Forest". April 25, 2020. "saprobe"...
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Requirements of Flapping Flight Constrain Folivory in Flying Animals?". Functional Ecology. 6 (1): 101–104. JSTOR 2389776. Grajal, Alejandro (1995). "Structure...
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Ecosystem (section Ecosystem ecology)
(1997). "The Ecosystem: An Evolving Concept Viewed Historically". Functional Ecology. 11 (2): 268–271. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.1997.00081.x. Tansley, A...
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Generalist and specialist species (redirect from Generalist (ecology))
item, or able to eat a plant that generalists would be less tolerant of. Ecology portal Cosmopolitan distribution Endemism Fitness landscape List of feeding...
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Herbivore (category Ecology terminology)
"Manipulation of host plant quality: herbivores keep leaves in the dark". Functional Ecology. 6 (6): 741–743. Bibcode:1992FuEco...6..741S. doi:10.2307/2389971...
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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...
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Prey switching (redirect from Switching (ecology))
2017). "Predator foraging response to a resurgent dangerous prey". Functional Ecology. 31 (7): 1418–1429. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12866. Hassell, Michael...
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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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Ecological restoration (redirect from Restoration Ecology)
have lower levels of invasion. The incorporation of functional ecology has shown that more functionally diverse restorations have lower levels of invasion...
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