• 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...
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    cascade effect is an inevitable and sometimes unforeseen chain of events due to an act affecting a system. If there is a possibility that the cascade...
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  • is a herbivore). The trophic cascade is an ecological concept which has stimulated new research in many areas of ecology. For example, it can be important...
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  • Carnoustie effect (golf) (golf terminology) Carryover effect (cooking techniques) (food and drink) Cascade effect (ecology) Cascade effect (spaceflight)...
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  • Ecological resilience Ecological threshold Ecosystem collapse Cascade effect (ecology) Percolation theory Scheffer, Marten; Carpenter, Steve; Foley,...
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    facilitation cascade is a sequence of ecological interactions that occur when a species benefits a second species that in turn has a positive effect on a third...
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    Fryxell, JM (2005). "Human activity mediates a trophic cascade caused by wolves" (PDF). Ecology. 86 (8): 2135–2144. Bibcode:2005Ecol...86.2135H. doi:10...
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    and between species; and patterns of biodiversity and its effect on ecosystem processes. Ecology has practical applications in conservation biology, wetland...
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    "The strength of trophic cascades across ecosystems: predictions from allometry and energetics". Journal of Animal Ecology. 74 (6): 1029–1038. Bibcode:2005JAnEc...
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  • a trophic cascade effect across the food chain, ultimately increasing overall ecosystem productivity. Biomass (ecology) Community ecology Food web Agricultural...
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    The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon...
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    debated in ecology (reviewed in Shurin et al. 2006) and the issue of whether trophic cascades occur in soils is no less complex Trophic cascades do occur...
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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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  • Road ecology is the study of the ecological effects (both positive and negative) of roads and highways (public roads). These effects may include local...
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    Taylor, David S.; Wolf, Christopher (2016). "What is a Trophic Cascade?". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 31 (11): 842–849. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2016.08.010...
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    Lake ecosystem (redirect from Pond ecology)
    between two trophic levels, with no effect on the others. In some cases, however, aquatic systems experience a trophic cascade; for example, this might occur...
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    Theoretical ecology is the scientific discipline devoted to the study of ecological systems using theoretical methods such as simple conceptual models...
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    Cole, J. J.; et al. (December 1999). "Trophic cascades revealed in diverse ecosystems". Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 14 (12): 483–488. doi:10...
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    The North Cascades are a section of the Cascade Range of western North America. They span the border between the Canadian province of British Columbia...
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    A. L. (1987). Freshwater Ecology. Heinimann Educational Books, London. p. 163. ISBN 0435606220. Angelier, E. 2003. Ecology of Streams and Rivers. Science...
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  • ecology, any behavior which contributes to an individual's reproductive success and is thus subject to the forces of natural selection. allee effect A...
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    Food web (category Trophic ecology)
    Functional Ecology. 28 (2): 375–385. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12181. JSTOR 24033672. Polis, G.A.; et al. (2000). "When is a trophic cascade a trophic cascade?" (PDF)...
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  • within the boundaries of modern ecology (e.g. the cat-to-clover chain – an ecological cascade) and because the term ecology was coined in 1866 by a strong...
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  • availability cascade, a self-reinforcing process through which a certain belief gains increasing prominence in public discourse. The bandwagon effect can take...
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    Ecological pyramid (category Ecology)
    on works of G. Evelyn Hutchinson and Raymond Lindeman (1942). Trophic cascade Gates DM, Thompson JN and Thompson MB (2018) Efficiency of solar energy...
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    interspecific competition can be the source of a cascade of effects that build on each other. An example of such an effect is the introduction of an invasive species...
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    Keystone species (category Community ecology)
    A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its natural environment relative to its abundance, a concept introduced in...
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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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    Cross-boundary subsidy (category Landscape ecology)
    changes in the trophic structure of one ecosystem resulted in an effect that cascaded to the adjacent ecosystem. In ponds containing fish, dragonfly larvae...
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    Mesopredator (category Ecology)
    is known as the mesopredator release effect, which refers to the release of mesopredators from the trophic cascade. These mesopredator outbreaks can lead...
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