Ecology - Oxford Bibliographies
Coastal Dune Habitats
Thomas E. Miller, Marina Lauck
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Coastal Dune HabitatsIntroductionCoastal dunes occur along the majority of coastlines worldwide, often as parts of barrier islands, and are one of the...
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 ConceptIntroductionFor almost as long as ecology has been a discipline, it has struggled to define what constitutes an ecological commun...
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 Genetics
Jennifer A. Schweitzer, Joseph K. Bailey
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Community Genetics Introduction Community genetics is a relatively young empirical field that focuses upon the genetic relationships among spe...
Community Phenology
David W. Inouye, Amy M. Iler
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 and Coexistence in Animal Communities
Priyanga Amarasekare
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Competition and Coexistence in Animal Communities Introduction Competition is one of the most ubiquitous of species interactions. It occurs an...
Competition in Plant Communities
Paul A. Keddy, James Cahill
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Competition in Plant CommunitiesIntroductionCompetition is generally understood to refer to the negative effects on plant growth or fitness caused by ...
Complexity Theory
John T. Murphy
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Complexity TheoryIntroductionComplexity theory is a collection of theories and approaches that began to grow to prominence in the 1990s, that attempt ...
Conservation Biology
Luc 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...
Darwin, Charles
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Charles Darwin Introduction Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809–19 April 1882) was a British naturalist best known for his work establishi...
De-Glaciation, Ecology of
Kenneth R. Young
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Ecology of De-GlaciationIntroductionThe retreat of glaciers provides ecological space for colonization by plants, animals, and microbes, in turn initi...
Dead Wood in Forest Ecosystems
Jürgen Bauhus, Kristin Baber, Jörg Müller
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Dead Wood in Forest EcosystemsIntroductionDead wood occurs in every forested ecosystem. Even if trees are harvested, some of their wood remains on sit...
Decomposition
Beth A. Middleton
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Decomposition Introduction A cornerstone of ecosystem ecology, decomposition was recognized as a fundamental process driving the exchange of e...
Dendroecology
Matthew D. Therrell
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Dendroecology Introduction The fact that tree rings are annual in nature and reflect the surrounding environment has undoubtedly been recogniz...
Disease Ecology
Richard S. Ostfeld
Subject: Ecology »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Disease EcologyIntroductionDisease ecology is a rapidly developing subdiscipline of ecology concerned with how species interactions and abiotic compon...
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