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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...
Dispersal
Ran Nathan, David Shohami
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Dispersal Introduction Dispersal refers to movements of individuals or propagules that have potential consequences for gene flow within and b...
Endophytes, Fungal
Gregory P. Cheplick
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Fungal Endophytes Introduction Symbiotic interactions between diverse species are widespread in nature. Endophytes are microbes, such as fungi...
Energy Flow
William S. Currie
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Energy Flow Introduction Energy flow in ecology encompasses a broad range of empirical and theoretical topics. It is difficult to draw a disti...
Facilitation and the Organization of Communities
Christopher J. Lortie
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Facilitation and the Organization of Communities Introduction Species interactions are a cornerstone of ecological research wherein the effect...
Fire Ecology
John Parminter
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Fire Ecology Introduction Abiotic natural disturbance agents include wildfire, wind, landslides, snow avalanches, volcanoes, flooding, and ot...
Foraging, Optimal
David W. Stephens
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Optimal Foraging Introduction All organisms face problems of resource acquisition, and in the broadest sense foraging theory is an attempt to ...
Forests, Temperate Deciduous
Frank S. Gilliam
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Temperate Deciduous Forests Introduction Given the global distribution of human populations and their coincidence with temperate deciduous for...
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