• A functional group is a collection of organisms that share characteristics within a community. Ideally, these would perform equivalent tasks based on domain...
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    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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  • organic chemistry, a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions of a molecule Functional group (ecology), a collection of organisms...
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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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  • 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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    (1927). Animal Ecology. London: Sidgwick and Jackson. ISBN 0-226-20639-4. Davic, R. D. (2003). "Linking keystone species and functional groups: a new operational...
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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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  • Functional diversity (ecology), the elements of biodiversity that influence how ecosystems function; see diversity-function debate Functional diversity (geography)...
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    during drought varies with background hydrologic regime and plant functional group". Ecology. 91 (6): 1672–1681. Bibcode:2010Ecol...91.1672D. doi:10.1890/09-0567...
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    during drought varies with background hydrologic regime and plant functional group". Ecology. 91 (6): 1672–1681. Bibcode:2010Ecol...91.1672D. doi:10.1890/09-0567...
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    1940s, ecology was divided into autecology—the study of individual species in relation to the environment—and synecology—the study of groups of species...
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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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    Plant ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that studies the distribution and abundance of plants, the effects of environmental factors upon the abundance...
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    of uniformity in land use. Landscape ecology explores the landscape's natural potential in terms of functional utility for human societies. To analyse...
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  • Ecological Society of America Ecological wisdom Ecology Ecology (journal) Ecology Functional Groups Ecology movement Eco-marathon Economic vegetarianism...
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    number of species from one group by the total number of species from all groups. These measures are all a part of community ecology. Understanding patterns...
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    Phosphate (redirect from Phosphate group)
    In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid. It most commonly means orthophosphate, a derivative...
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  • freshwater biology functional ecology A branch of ecology which studies the roles, or functions, that certain species (or groups of species) play in...
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  • Functional extinction is the extinction of a species or other taxon such that: It disappears from the fossil record, or historic reports of its existence...
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  • ecology of organizations is divided into three levels, the community, the population, and the organization. The community level is the functionally integrated...
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  • Cultural ecology is the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments. Human adaptation refers to both biological and cultural processes...
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  • (also called the resource-ratio hypothesis) is a hypothesis in community ecology that attempts to predict which species will become dominant as the result...
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  • two ecosystems form the more general study area of freshwater or aquatic ecology. A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are...
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    animal behavior and group dynamics, food webs, ecosystems, spatial ecology, and the effects of climate change. Theoretical ecology has further benefited...
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    Forest ecology is the scientific study of the interrelated patterns, processes, flora, fauna, funga, and ecosystems in forests. The management of forests...
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    Applied Ecology. 40 (2): 193–203. Bibcode:2003JApEc..40..193C. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2664.2003.00803.x. Lefcheck, Jon (20 October 2014). "What is functional diversity...
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    Some examples of behavioural ecology Behavioral ecology, also spelled behavioural ecology, is the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due...
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    In ecology, a feeding frenzy is a type of animal group activity that occurs when predators are overwhelmed by the amount of prey available. The term is...
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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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    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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