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Accounting for Ecological Capital
Susan Ogilvy, Robert Costanza
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Accounting for Ecological CapitalIntroductionIn this article, ecological-capital assets are defined in keeping with economic and accounting convention...
Adaptive Radiation
Linyi Zhang, Scott P. Egan
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Adaptive RadiationIntroductionThe spectacular diversity of life on earth presents one of the most intriguing questions for biologists: why and how doe...
Agroecology
David A. Cleveland, Christopher Bacon
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Agroecology Introduction In this article, “agroecology” is defined as a comprehensive perspective of agrifood systems including the relationsh...
Allelopathy
Diego A. Sotomayor, Christopher J. Lortie
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
AllelopathyIntroductionAllelopathy—the production by an organism of substances inhibitory or harmful to other organisms—as a concept has been utilized...
Allocation of Reproductive Resources in Plants
Andrew C. McCall
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Allocation of Reproductive Resources in Plants ...
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...
Antarctic Environments and Ecology
Roberto Bargagli
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Antarctic Environments and Ecology Introduction Greek philosophers suggested the existence of a southern landmass (Antarktikos) to “balance” t...
Anthropocentrism
Jonathan Padwe
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Anthropocentrism Introduction Anthropocentrism refers to a human-centered, or “anthropocentric,” point of view. In philosophy, anthropocentris...
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...
Aquatic Conservation
Jacob W. Brownscombe, Kim Birnie-Gauvin, Jill Brooks, Brittany Sullivan, Matt Ford, Shannon D. Bower, Joseph R. Bennett, Steven J. Cooke, Andrea J. Reid, Lana Dolgova, Ryan Pusiak, Bruce Laurich, Eric Denis Turenne, Aaron Zolderdo, Petra Szekeres, Andrew D. Moraga
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Aquatic ConservationIntroductionConservation biology—a “crisis-discipline” focused on protecting and restoring the earth’s biological diversity—has fo...
Aquatic Nutrient Cycling
Cédric Leo Meunier, Maarten Boersma
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Aquatic Nutrient CyclingIntroductionIn ecology, the use, transformation, movement, and reuse of nutrients in ecosystems is referred to as nutrient cyc...
Archaea, Ecology of
Graeme W. Nicol, James I. Prosser
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Ecology of ArchaeaIntroductionArchaea were discovered during research that aimed to understand the fundamental evolutionary relationships of all extan...
Assembly Models
Dominique Gravel
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Assembly Models Introduction Understanding the processes that drive the assembly of a community has been a central theme of ecology since the ...
Autecology
G.H. Walter
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Autecology Introduction Ecology’s central question is the distribution and abundance of organisms. To this end, autecology quantifies the surv...
Bacterial Diversity in Freshwater
Eva S. Lindström
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Bacterial Diversity in FreshwaterIntroductionThe tree of life, describing the evolutionary relationships among organisms, is totally dominated by bact...
Benthic Ecology
Ron Etter
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Benthic EcologyIntroductionBenthic ecology is a large and very diverse field that explores how organisms that live on the ocean floor interact with an...
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Jasper van Ruijven
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Introduction In the field of ecology, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) research is a relative n...
Biodiversity Patterns in Agricultural Systms
Les Firbank, Sofia Biffi
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Biodiversity Patterns in Agricultural SystemsIntroductionBiodiversity is declining at a global scale due to large and small scale processes associated...
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