In ecology, a priority effect refers to the impact that a particular species can have on community development as a result of its prior arrival at a site...

with trophic level over 4 (carnivores that eat other carnivores). This effect, called mesopredator release, occurs in terrestrial and marine ecosystems;...

theory Occupancy–abundance relationship Population viability analysis Priority effect Rapoport's rule Relative abundance distribution Relative species abundance...

The Allee effect is a phenomenon in biology characterized by a correlation between population size or density and the mean individual fitness (often measured...

pattern of occupancy Species-area curve Species discovery curve Storage effect Colwell, Robert K. (2009). "Biodiversity: Concepts, Patterns and Measurement"...

biogeographic basis. WWF Global 200 The World Wildlife Fund—WWF identified 43 priority marine ecoregions, as part of its Global 200 initiative. List of marine...

Primakoff effect (particle physics) Priority effect (ecology) Probe effect (software development philosophies) (system administration) Proteus effect (consciousness)...

introduced to parts of Britain, continental Europe and South Africa. Its effect on populations of nesting birds is often serious because of consumption...

A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its natural environment relative to its abundance. The concept was introduced...

The storage effect is a coexistence mechanism proposed in the ecological theory of species coexistence, which tries to explain how such a wide variety...

of priority during a period of twelve months from the date of filing of the first application. Article 89 EPC describes the effect of the priority right:...

An ecological cascade effect is a series of secondary extinctions that are triggered by the primary extinction of a key species in an ecosystem. Secondary...

species have a large effect on ecosystem function, while rare species tend to have a small effect. Keystone species tend to have an effect on ecosystem function...

plants as well as animals at the community junction is called the edge effect and is essentially due to a locally broader range of suitable environmental...

population size Inbreeding depression Human population Metapopulation Rescue effect Holsinger, Kent (2007-09-04). "Types of Stochastic Threats". EEB310: Conservation...

expansion and technological advances in the last few centuries has had a major effect on nocturnal animals, as well as diurnal species. The causes of these can...

Foster's rule, also known as the island rule or the island effect, is an ecogeographical rule in evolutionary biology stating that members of a species...

Mass Effect Galaxy at War Edition (2013) was announced by USAopoly and was released in Fall 2013. Monopoly: Mass Effect (2015) Mass Effect: Priority Hagalaz...

species are equally abundant in the dataset, changing the value of q has no effect, but species diversity at any value of q equals species richness. Negative...

rate of the population N to the current population size, incorporating the effect of the two constant parameters r and K. (Note that when the population size...

describe, respectively, the maximum prey per capita growth rate, and the effect of the presence of predators on the prey death rate. The predator's parameters...

warm water lagoons and bays with narrow openings to the ocean. A different effect is the thousands of square miles of the ocean which shine with the light...

species that make up the ecological community of its habitat (the umbrella effect). Species conservation can be subjective because it is hard to determine...

which species becomes dominant. This phenomenon is referred to as the priority effect and suggests that the species that became established earlier are more...

underlying cause of effects like population bottlenecks and the founder effect. Genetic drift is the major source of decrease of genetic diversity within...

encounter with items, h=handling time, e=energy gained per encounter. In effect, this would indicate that a herbivore in a dense forest would spend more...

introduced species is highly variable. Some have a substantial negative effect on a local ecosystem (in which case they are also classified more specifically...

of the effect of pesticides, monocultures and genetically modified crops to see if the anthropogenically created problems can have an effect pollination...

dispute about priority and correct attribution, the effect is also sometimes referred to as the Penrose–Terrell effect, the Terrell–Penrose effect or the...

species of algae. The relative abundance of nitrogen and phosphorus can in effect determine which species of algae come to dominate. Algae are a very important...