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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall...

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)...

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

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

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...

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...

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

A branch of ecology which studies how flows of energy and matter interact with biotic elements of ecosystems. ecosystem engineer ecosystem functional type...

agricultural landscapes are examples of sites where research into novel ecosystem ecology is developing. Human society has transformed the planet to such an...

conservation groups that promote ecosystem management. It is one of the world's foremost natural laboratories in landscape ecology and Holocene geology, and...

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)...

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

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

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

Functional ecology – Branch of ecology – the study of the roles, or functions, that certain species (or groups thereof) play in an ecosystem; Genetic ecology –...

In ecology, a disturbance is a change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Disturbances often act quickly and with...

data on the scale to consider ecology as a big data science. A current challenge for ecoinformatics in ecosystem ecology is that most funding is prioritized...

phage ecology is treated under the following heads— "organismal" ecology, population ecology, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology. Phage ecology also...

Forest ecology is the scientific study of the interrelated patterns, processes, flora, fauna, funga, and ecosystems in forests. The management of forests...

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