referred to as the latitudinal diversity gradient. The latitudinal diversity gradient is one of the most widely recognized patterns in ecology. It has been...

Dark diversity Gamma diversity Genetic diversity Latitudinal gradients in species diversity Relative species abundance Species–area relationship Hill...

ecosystem. In his 1966 paper, Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity, Paine had described such a system in Makah Bay in Washington. In his 1969 paper...

the rule to "explain" greater species diversity in the tropics in the sense that latitudinal gradients in species diversity and the rule have identical...

areas. Many organism groups have most species in the tropics, which leads to latitudinal gradients in species richness. There has been much discussion...

both species and genetic diversity. Diversity in the ecosystem is significant to human existence for a variety of reasons. Ecosystem diversity boosts...

In conservation biology, a flagship species is a species chosen to raise support for biodiversity conservation in a given place or social context. Definitions...

Walsh, Jr. 2006. "Evaluating reserves for species richness and representation in northern California." Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 12, 434–442. Gilby...

mycorrhizal fungi. The great diversity in unrelated plant families with myco-heterotrophic members, as well as the diversity of fungi targeted by myco-heterotrophs...

and main food source of the species in general, so these exceptions do not make either individual animals or the species as a whole omnivorous. For the...

The technical term for mammals in the order Carnivora is carnivoran, and they are so-named because most member species in the group have a carnivorous diet...

McKenzie Flats study discussed in that the loss of foundation species led to a proliferation of species diversity in the affected area. These results...

terrestrial area and contain about 50% of the world's species. There are latitudinal gradients in species diversity for both marine and terrestrial taxa. Since...

plethora of species, in all forms of environmental conditions, such as marine or land animals. Humans can make or change abiotic factors in a species' environment...

exception to the common latitudinal gradient in species diversity, since the family was thought to be at its most species-rich in the temperate zone instead...

qualifiers are often added, such as in British range or pre-1950 range. The typical geographic ranges could be the latitudinal range and elevational range. Disjunct...

literature, r-selected species are occasionally referred to as "opportunistic" whereas K-selected species are described as "equilibrium". In stable or predictable...

Mid-domain effect spatial/area hypotheses to explain Latitudinal gradients in species diversity Methylenedioxyephedrone also known as MDE Model-driven...

relationship between species diversity and productivity is unimodal within an ecosystem. A 1999 study on grassland ecosystems in Europe, for example,...

explain latitudinal gradients in species richness. American Naturalist 142: 1-16. Rohde, K. 1999. Latitudinal gradients in species diversity and Rapoport's...

a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild. This term is commonly used in the fields of biology, ecology, and conservation...

principle, in evolutionary biology, is that in most species, variability in reproductive success (or reproductive variance) is greater in males than in females...

Iberian lynx. Apex predators affect prey species' population dynamics and populations of other predators, both in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Non-native...

include the study of species richness, latitudinal gradients in species diversity, the species-area curve, range size, body size, and species abundance. Specifically...

hosting species that would not thrive outside the boundary habitat. In 1958, Charles S. Elton claimed that ecosystems with higher species diversity were...

can result in extinction or immense decreases of survival of a species. Many food chains and food webs contain a keystone species, a species that has a...

introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a...

chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs, and is most often associated...

are: human intervention in the balance of local diversity (through introduction of new species or overexploitation), alterations in the chemical balance...

prey on zooplankton species that come to the surface at night. Some species have developed unique adaptations that allow them to hunt in the dark. Bats are...