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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...
Fern and Lycophyte Ecology
Klaus Mehltreter, Joanne M. Sharpe
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Fern and Lycophyte EcologyIntroductionFern ecology is a relatively new branch of research. Fern research and fern societies were focused for more than...
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...
Food Webs
Mary I. O'Connor, Joanna R. Bernhardt, Natalie C. Caulk
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Food Webs Introduction The food web is a network description of energy, species, and individuals in communities and ecosystems according to fe...
Foraging Behavior, Implications of
Ronald C. Ydenberg
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Implications of Foraging Behavior Introduction The scientific study of ecology began in the 20th century with ideas about population dynamics ...
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 Coniferous
Lee E. Frelich
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Temperate Coniferous ForestsIntroductionTemperate conifer forests are geographically and taxonomically diverse, occurring on five continents (North Am...
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...
Freshwater Invertebrate Ecology
Matt R. Whiles
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Freshwater Invertebrate Ecology Introduction The field of freshwater invertebrate ecology has developed for well over a century now. Ecologist...
Genetic Considerations in Plant Ecological Restoration
Danny J. Gustafson, Alexis Gibson
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Genetic Considerations in Plant Ecological RestorationIntroductionEcological restoration is most commonly described as the process of aiding in the re...
Genomics, Ecological
Patrick Abbot
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Ecological Genomics Introduction Ecological genomics seeks to understand genomic responses to environmental variation and in turn how genomic ...
Geoecology
Nishanta Rajakaruna, Robert S. Boyd
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Geoecology Introduction Geology plays a fundamental role in shaping the biotic world around us. Geologic history (plate tectonics and orogenic...
Geographic Range
K. A. S. Mislan
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
Geographic RangeIntroductionGeographic range describes the spatial area where a species is found. Studies on the processes determining geographic rang...
Gleason, Henry
Malcolm Nicolson
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Henry Allan GleasonIntroductionUp until the 1940s, plant ecology in Europe and North America was dominated by the community-unit theory—the concept th...
Grazer Ecology
Anthony Joern, Edward J. Raynor
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Grazer EcologyIntroductionGrazing systems, grass-like vegetation interacting with their large mammal grazers, are important globally, where estimates ...
Greig-Smith, Peter
Exequiel Ezcurra
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Peter Greig-SmithIntroductionThe postwar period, and especially the 1950s, saw a rising quest for a truly quantitative approach to community ecology. ...
Gymnosperm Ecology
Christopher Earle
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Gymnosperm Ecology Introduction The gymnosperms are a group of plants that includes the conifers, cycads, gnetophytes, and ginkgo. The term “g...
Habitat Selection
Douglas Morris
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Habitat SelectionIntroductionAll organisms use habitat that varies across numerous scales of space and time. Consequently, the use of some habitats ov...
Harper, John L.
Roy Turkington
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
John L. HarperIntroductionProfessor John Lander Harper CBE, FRS (b. May 27, 1925–d. March 22, 2009) revolutionized plant ecology and had perhaps a gre...
Harvesting Alternative Water Resources (US West)
Sayd Randle
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Harvesting Alternative Water Resources (US West)IntroductionSince the mid-20th century, the western half of the United States has been known worldwide...
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