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...

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

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

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

causing humans to continuously fragment landscapes and thus increase the edge effect. This change in landscape ecology is proving to have consequences. Generalist...

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

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

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

New York, NY: Gale. pp. 118–200. ISBN 978-0-02-865700-4. "DDT Ban Takes Effect". United States Environmental Protection Agency. 1972-12-31. Archived from...

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

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...

develop defenses against herbivores such as chemical defenses. Cascade effect Energy flow (ecology) Marine trophic level Mesopredator release hypothesis...

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

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

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...

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

Lawler, S.P., Morin, P.J. (1993). "Temporal overlap, competition, and priority effects in larval anurans". Ecology. 74 (1): 174–182. doi:10.2307/1939512...

medium-sized predator population to increase, therefore having a negative effect on the underlying prey community. The mesopredator release hypothesis offers...

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...

Without priority inheritance, process M could preempt process L during the critical section and delay its completion, in effect causing the lower-priority process...

of the seabed. The introduction of alien species can have a devastating effect on native wildlife – through increased predation, through competition for...

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

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...

equals the number of births (as well as immigration and emigration). The effect of carrying capacity on population dynamics is modelled with a logistic...

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

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...

different times, which is called a mosaic of microbial populations. Species effect and diversity in an ecosystem can be analyzed through their performance...

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...

provide winter or year-round homes and food for cormorants. Cormorants' effect on the aquaculture industry is significant, with a dense flock capable of...

be regarded as exclusively exploitative or interference. Separating the effect of resource use from that of interference is not easy. A good example of...