Ecosystem ecology is the integrated study of living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems and their interactions within an ecosystem...

an ecosystem.: 324  An ecosystem engineer is any organism that creates, significantly modifies, maintains or destroys a habitat. Ecosystem ecology is...

physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps with the closely...

these two ecosystems form the more general study area of freshwater or aquatic ecology. The following unifying characteristics make the ecology of running...

especially ecosystems. Systems ecology can be seen as an application of general systems theory to ecology. Central to the systems ecology approach is...

aquatic ecosystem is an ecosystem found in and around a body of water, in contrast to land-based terrestrial ecosystems. Aquatic ecosystems contain communities...

A marine coastal ecosystem is a marine ecosystem which occurs where the land meets the ocean. Marine coastal ecosystems include many very different types...

Energy flow is the flow of energy through living things within an ecosystem. All living organisms can be organized into producers and consumers, and those...

A lake ecosystem or lacustrine ecosystem includes biotic (living) plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (non-living) physical and chemical...

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

In ecology, the term productivity refers to the rate of generation of biomass in an ecosystem, usually expressed in units of mass per volume (unit surface)...

An ecosystem engineer is any species that creates, significantly modifies, maintains or destroys a habitat. These organisms can have a large impact on...

"Information ecology" often is used as metaphor, viewing the information space as an ecosystem, the information ecosystem. Information ecology also makes...

Together, these two ecosystems form the more general study area of freshwater or aquatic ecology. A wetland is a distinct ecosystem that is flooded or...

the biosphere, Arthur Tansley's ecosystem, Charles Elton's Animal Ecology, and Henry Cowles ecological succession. Ecology influenced the social sciences...

process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed." Restoration ecology is the academic study of the science...

Ecosystem diversity deals with the variations in ecosystems within a geographical location and its overall impact on human existence and the environment...

should be divided into population ecology, community ecology and ecosystem ecology, renaming autecology as 'species ecology' (Odum regarded "autecology" as...

research, particularly in trophic ecology, and continue to provoke important ideas that are relevant beyond this unique ecosystem. For example, kelp forests...

A branch of ecology which studies how flows of energy and matter interact with biotic elements of ecosystems. ecosystem engineer ecosystem functional type...

K.; Dulvy, Nicholas K. (2013). "Ecosystem ecology: size-based constraints on the pyramids of life". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 28 (7): 423–431. doi:10...

Fire ecology is a scientific discipline concerned with the effects of fire on natural ecosystems. Many ecosystems, particularly prairie, savanna, chaparral...

Mooney, M.C. Chapin, and P. Matson. 2011. Principles of terrestrial ecosystem ecology. Springer, New York. Water Quality Vocabulary. ISO 6107-6:1994. Hogan...

In ecology, local abundance is the relative representation of a species in a particular ecosystem. It is usually measured as the number of individuals...

Evolutionary Ecology in Tropical and Temperate Regions, pp. 273-287. Wiley, NY. Sahasrabudhe, S., and A.E. Motter, 2011. Rescuing ecosystems from extinction...

behavior and group dynamics, food webs, ecosystems, spatial ecology, and the effects of climate change. Theoretical ecology has further benefited from the advent...

was an American ecologist. He is known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology, and for his provocative proposals for additional laws of thermodynamics...

, eds. (1988). Concepts of Ecosystem Ecology. New York: Springer-Verlag. Allee, W.C. (1949). Principles of animal ecology. Philadelphia: Saunders Co....

Landscape ecology is the science of studying and improving relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems. This is...

modern aspects to human ecology, including the balance of nature while highlighting the importance of ecological functions (ecosystem services or natural...