ecology•They areawareoftrade-offsbetweencivilizationandecology.•She is giving alectureabout thenaturalhistoryandecologyof theseashore.•In most cases,ecologyis toblame.•Onedefinitionof a coevolutionaryecologyis acollectionoforganismsthat serve as their own environment.•Plans to build a newairfi...
What is the simple definition of ecology? Ecology is the interaction among the living and nonliving things in an environment. Those interactions determine the survival, population density, and distribution of species. Create an account to start this course today Used by over 30 million students wo...
Table 1.Definition of the main terms used in microbiota studies. TermDefinition MicrobiotaAll microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, Archaea, etc.) present in an environment. RichnessThe number of different species present in a community. DiversityA mathematical index that takes into account the number of...
Definition Chapters and Articles Related Terms Recommended Publications Chapters and Articles You might find these chapters and articles relevant to this topic. Microbial Ecology N.D. Gray, I.M. Head, in Encyclopedia of Ecology, 2008 Introduction Microbial ecology explores the diversity, distribution, ...
relatedness (Fig.2and Extended Data Fig.3). However, we do not claim that our approach should supersede existing taxonomic classification systems, especially since a robust and meaningful species definition requires the integration of viral properties with finer-scale evolutionary analyses that was not...
In choosing a definition for 'cause', we make a presupposition that profoundly influences subsequent observations and experimental designs. Alternative definitions of causation should be considered as contributing to potential cures for research problems....
Survey participants were also given an opportunity to propose their own definition. The first part of the survey then ended with the question “If you had 1 min to argue for a major new research funding initiative, what would you say is the most important question for ecosystem ecologists to...
its implicit definition in previous work is that of a Hutchinsonian ecological niche17—ann-dimensional hypervolume describing all environmental resources and conditions required for species persistence. We adopt this conventional definition throughout this paper. The consequences of competition can include ...
Density-dependent effects across biological levels.aA simple functional definition for the terminology of density in insects. We considered low density studies that investigated single individuals (in butterflies) or small groups (in flies) and high density, studies that investigated large groups, crowdin...
The predation of gliding predatory non-avian maniraptorans (pennaraptorans) on ancestral birds in the context of the arboreal theory is shown (please see text for details). Paraves phylogeny with digestive system characteristics (gastric mill, crop, and tooth) and taxonomic definition (e.g., ...