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Allelopathy
Diego A. Sotomayor, Christopher J. Lortie
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Allelopathy Introduction Allelopathy—the production by an organism of substances inhibitory or harmful to other organisms—as a concept has bee...
Animals, Functional Morphology of
Duncan J. Irschick
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Functional Morphology of Animals Introduction As a field, functional morphology aims to understand how morphological form is related to func...
Animals, Reproductive Allocation in
James Gilbert
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Reproductive Allocation in Animals Introduction Reproductive allocation is a term used in ecology and evolutionary biology that refers to the ...
Animals, Thermoregulation in
Michael J. Angilletta
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Thermoregulation in Animals Introduction Thermoregulation includes all phenomena in which an organism maintains a mean or variance of body tem...
Applied Ecology
David K. Skelly, L. Kealoha Freidenburg
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Applied Ecology Introduction As its name suggests, applied ecology focuses on the application of ecological knowledge to address environmental...
Biological Chaos and Complex Dynamics
David A. Vasseur
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Biological Chaos and Complex Dynamics Introduction Classically, chaos is defined as a lack of order; however, in a scientific context it refer...
Biome, Grassland
David J. Gibson
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Grassland Biome Introduction Grassland is the most extensive terrestrial biome, occupying 41–56 × 106 km2, or 31–43 percent of Earth’s surface...
Chemical Ecology
André Kessler
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Chemical Ecology Introduction “Ours is a world of sights and sounds. We live by our eyes and ears and tend generally to be oblivious to the ch...
Classification Analysis
Otto Wildi
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Classification Analysis Introduction Classification is the grouping of similar objects to produce a classification. It is a necessary process ...
Coevolution
Michael A. Brockhurst, Kayla C. King
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Coevolution Introduction Coevolution, the reciprocal evolutionary change of ecologically interacting species, is a central process shaping the...
Communities and Ecosystems, Indirect Effects in
Thomas E. Miller, Casey P. terHorst
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Indirect Effects in Communities & Ecosystems Introduction The goal of ecology is to understand the distribution and abundance of organisms, gen...
Communities, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Regulation of
Jonathan B. Shurin
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Regulation of Communities Introduction The dichotomy between top-down and bottom-up forces acting on populations and co...
Community Concept, The
Mark Vellend
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
The Community Concept Introduction For almost as long as ecology has been a discipline, it has struggled to define what constitutes an ecolo...
Community Ecology
Herman A. Verhoef
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Community Ecology Introduction At the beginning of the 20th century there was much debate about the “nature” of communities. The driving quest...
Community Phenology
David W. Inouye, Amy M. McKinney
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Community Phenology Introduction Phenology is the study of the timing of seasonal events. The Greek root phainomai means to appear, and the mo...
Competition in Plant Communities
Paul A. Keddy
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Competition in Plant Communities Introduction Competition is generally understood to refer to the negative effects caused by the presence of ...
Conservation Biology
L. Lens, H. Eggermont
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Conservation Biology Introduction Conservation biology is defined as a “mission-oriented crisis discipline” studying the nature and status of...
Conservation Genetics
David Coltman
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Conservation Genetics Introduction Conservation genetics is a multidisciplinary field that applies the principles of heredity to the preservat...
Coral Reefs
Nancy Knowlton
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Coral Reefs Introduction Coral reefs are the most diverse of marine ecosystems, with hundreds of thousands if not millions of species associat...
Desert Biome
David Ward
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Desert Biome Introduction Deserts are defined by their arid conditions. However, deserts are not necessarily dry. It is the high evaporation r...
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