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...

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)...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems is a 2006 higher education textbook on general ecology written by Michael Begon, Colin R. Townsend and John L....

agricultural landscapes are examples of sites where research into novel ecosystem ecology is developing. Human society has transformed the planet to such an...

phage ecology is treated under the following heads— "organismal" ecology, population ecology, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology. Phage ecology also...

In ecology, an ecosystem is said to possess ecological stability (or equilibrium) if it is capable of returning to its equilibrium state after a perturbation...

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

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