Ecological traps are scenarios in which rapid environmental change leads organisms to prefer to settle in poor-quality habitats. The concept stems from...

An ecological pyramid (also trophic pyramid, Eltonian pyramid, energy pyramid, or sometimes food pyramid) is a graphical representation designed to show...

ended up being trapped on one summit and thus cannot go anywhere else higher. Within behavioral and ecological sciences, evolutionary traps occur when rapid...

ecosystems over the whole planet. Ecological diversity includes the variation in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Ecological diversity can also take into...

Ecological efficiency describes the efficiency with which energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next. It is determined by a combination of...

low quality habitat, and to prefer high quality habitat. However, ecological trap theory describes the reasons why organisms may actually prefer sink...

The balance of nature, also known as ecological balance, is a theory that proposes that ecological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium or homeostasis...

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.: 458  The biotic and abiotic components...

and effects on litter nitrogen and decomposition in agroecosystems". Ecological Monographs. 62 (4): 569–591. doi:10.2307/2937317. JSTOR 2937317. S2CID 86031411...

relating to adaptation and natural selection are cornerstones of modern ecological theory. Ecosystems are dynamically interacting systems of organisms, the...

Ecological restoration, or ecosystem restoration, is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed...

variable providing a measure of the passage of energy and an index of ecological structure that increases through the linkages from the lowest to the highest...

Ecological yield is the harvestable population growth of an ecosystem. It is most commonly measured in forestry: sustainable forestry is defined as that...

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Species richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region. Species richness is simply a count of...

be apex predators as their behavior cannot be observed, and clues to ecological relationships, such as bite marks on bones or shells, do not form a complete...

A perceptual trap is an ecological scenario in which environmental change, typically anthropogenic, leads an organism to avoid an otherwise high-quality...

chains/webs—Concepts and implications for wildlife and human health". Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. 25 (6): 1353–1376. doi:10.1080/10807039.2018.1469398...

diverse as crop pests, marine animals, cane toads, and brown snakes. An ecological trap is an instance where organisms choose poor-quality habitats over better...

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community. The concept of ecological niche is central to ecological biogeography, which focuses on spatial patterns of ecological communities. "Species distributions...

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Ecological threshold is the point at which a relatively small change or disturbance in external conditions causes a rapid change in an ecosystem. When...

An ecosystem, short for ecological system, is defined as a collection of interacting organisms within a biophysical environment.: 458  Ecosystems are never...

of resources but by the amount of time (i.e. temporal division of the ecological niche). Hawks and owls can hunt the same field or meadow for the same...

in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, Springer International...

anything that eats; hence the word consume which means to eat. Within an ecological food chain, consumers are categorized into primary consumers, secondary...

and animal species. Methods for assessing wetland functions, wetland ecological health, and general wetland condition have been developed for many regions...

Community-Level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning", Advances in Ecological Research, Trait-Based Ecology – From Structure to Function, vol. 52, Academic...

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