The paradox of enrichment is a term from population ecology coined by Michael Rosenzweig in 1971. He described an effect in six predator–prey models where...
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management Enriched text, a text format for email Behavioral enrichment, in animal care Environmental enrichment, in neuroscience Paradox of enrichment, in ecology...
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each other. Paradox of enrichment: Increasing the food available to an ecosystem may lead to instability, and even to extinction. Paradox of the pesticides:...
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Hydra effect (redirect from Hydra paradox)
ownership of the original Yuzu code. Braess's paradox Paradox of enrichment Streisand effect Cobra effect Abrams, Peter (27 May 2015). "Hydra paradox: When...
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This page features lists of species and organisms that have become extinct. The reasons for extinction range from natural occurrences, such as shifts in...
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extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere. Local...
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Lotka–Volterra equations (category Eponymous equations of mathematics)
to the paradox of the pesticides and to the paradox of enrichment). A demonstration of this phenomenon is provided by the increased percentage of predatory...
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Human extinction (redirect from End of humanity)
(2024). "Potential incompatibility of inherited behavior patterns with civilization: Implications for Fermi paradox". Science Progress. 107 (3): 1–6. doi:10...
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lupus) created by Colossal Biosciences Inc. with the goal of replicating the phenotype of the extinct dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus). Romulus and Remus were...
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when a threshold of damage is reached.. Plateau effect List of paradoxes Paradox of enrichment: Increasing the food available to an ecosystem may introduce...
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been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as only consisting of living members kept in captivity or as a naturalized population...
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Overexploitation (redirect from Overexploitation of water resources)
Exploitation of natural resources Extinction Human overpopulation Inverse commons Over-consumption Overpopulation in wild animals Paradox of enrichment Planetary...
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Extinction (redirect from Loss of species)
Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it...
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Pyrenean ibex (category Fauna of Spain)
Catalan common name herc and French common name bouquetin, was one of the four subspecies of the Iberian ibex or Iberian wild goat (Capra pyrenaica), a species...
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extinction is the extinction of a species or other taxon such that: It disappears from the fossil record, or historic reports of its existence cease; The...
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of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct, although the species is already functionally extinct when the last of...
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Anagenesis (category Rate of evolution)
Anagenesis is the gradual evolution of a species that continues to exist as an interbreeding population. This contrasts with cladogenesis, which occurs...
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terms of symplectic geometry. Hopf bifurcations occur in the Lotka–Volterra model of predator–prey interaction (known as paradox of enrichment), the Hodgkin–Huxley...
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a process which, in the absence of recombination (especially in an asexual population), results in an accumulation of irreversible deleterious mutations...
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indicator of the state of global biological diversity, based on trends in vertebrate populations of species from around the world. The Zoological Society of London...
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Late Devonian mass extinction (category History of climate variability and change)
needed] Coronene and mercury enrichment has been found in deposits dating back to the Kellwasser event, with similar enrichments found in deposits coeval...
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This is a list of extinction events, both mass and minor: "Big Five" major extinction events (see graphic) Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic...
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times of biotic crisis many taxa go extinct, but others only temporarily disappeared from the fossil record, often for intervals measured in millions of years...
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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (redirect from Extinction of the dinosaurs)
extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian...
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Great Oxidation Event (redirect from Oxygenation of the Earth)
Earth, in spite of a faint Sun, is known as the faint young Sun paradox. Either CO2 levels were much higher at the time, providing enough of a greenhouse...
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would prevent a significant amount of human-caused suffering. The extinctions of non-human species and the scarcity of resources caused by humans are frequently...
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Late Ordovician mass extinction (category History of climate variability and change)
Shu; Yang, Detian; Gou, Qiyang (1 September 2022). "Seawater sources of Hg enrichment in Ordovician-Silurian boundary strata, South China". Palaeogeography...
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Holocene extinction (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from March 2022)
during the Holocene epoch. This extinction event spans numerous families of plants and animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish,...
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Extinction event (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction...
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Speciation (redirect from Theory of speciation)
splitting of lineages, as opposed to anagenesis, phyletic evolution within lineages. Charles Darwin was the first to describe the role of natural selection...
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