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    defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour, or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the...
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    A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its natural environment relative to its abundance, a concept introduced...
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    goals and the socio-economic nature of the concept, to support the marketing of a conservation effort. The species need to be popular, to work as symbols...
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    Dyke, Fred (2008). "Contemporary Issues of the Species Concept". Conservation biology: foundations, concepts, applications. Springer. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-4020-6890-4...
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    areas. The concept of an umbrella species is further utilized to create wildlife corridors with what are termed focal species. These focal species are chosen...
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  • This concept Ernst Mayr proposes here is now commonly referred to as the biological species concept. The biological species concept defines a species in...
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    between species can be inherently difficult. A species complex is typically considered as a group of close, but distinct species. Obviously, the concept is...
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  • in scientific literature. species complex species concept species problem The difficulty in precisely defining what a species is and in determining the...
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  • speciation isolating mechanisms species phenetic species biological species recognition species ecological species pluralistic species In alphabetical order by...
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    Cupressus (redirect from Cupressus species)
    recognised species; when a narrow species concept is adopted, the varieties indented in the list below may also be accepted as distinct species. See also...
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  • On the Origin of Species (1859) led to a new explanation for classifications, based on evolutionary relationships. This was the concept of phyletic systems...
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  • Mayr's reproductive concept of species, and so were not amenable to such treatment. In 1982, the ICTV started to define a species as "a cluster of strains"...
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  • The continuum concept is an idea, coined by Jean Liedloff in her 1975 book The Continuum Concept, that human beings have an innate set of expectations...
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  • ecological concept. Garibaldi and Turner emphasize that the cultural keystone species concept is not an extension of ecological keystone species, but rather...
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    Wheat leaf rust (category Articles with 'species' microformats)
    ultra-broad species concept for P. recondita and listed 52 binomials as its synonyms. A stream of thought opposite to broad morphologically-based concepts also...
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    D. (2003). "Linking keystone species and functional groups: a new operational definition of the keystone species concept" (PDF). Conservation Ecology...
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    the development of the biological species concept. Although Charles Darwin and others posited that multiple species could evolve from a single common...
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    Lemur (category Articles with 'species' microformats)
    classification is controversial and depends on which species concept is used. Many lemur species remain endangered due to habitat loss and hunting. Although...
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    everywhere"), therefore the concept of species, which works best for animals, becomes entirely a matter of judgment. The number of named species of bacteria and archaea...
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  • Concept learning, also known as category learning, concept attainment, and concept formation, is defined by Bruner, Goodnow, & Austin (1967) as "the search...
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    Starfish (category Articles with 'species' microformats)
    (Stichaster australis), have become widely known as examples of the keystone species concept in ecology. The tropical crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci)...
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    Some articulations of the phylogenetic species concept require species to be monophyletic, but paraphyletic species are common in nature, to the extent that...
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    Honey bee (category Articles with 'species' microformats)
    distinct species. Later, it was included in A. dorsata as a subspecies based on the biological species concept, though authors applying a genetic species concept...
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    the process where a species diverges into two or more descendant species. There are multiple ways to define the concept of "species". The choice of definition...
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    between species, and spontaneous generation of life. The Protestant Reformation inspired a literal interpretation of the Bible, with concepts of creation...
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    matters, "concept intensifies the impact" of certain albums "in more or less the way Sgt. Pepper intended", as well as "a species of concept that pushes...
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  • A fuzzy concept is a kind of concept of which the boundaries of application can vary considerably according to context or conditions, instead of being...
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    taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens). A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups and...
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  • Species is a 1995 American science fiction horror film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dennis Feldman. It stars Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen...
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  • Clades Monophyletic Polyphyletic Speciation Isolating mechanisms Concept of species Species problem In alphabetical order by surname: Aristotle Arthur Cronquist...
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