Ecology is defined as the science that studies relationships between organisms and their environments. There are many different perspectives through which these relationships can be viewed. As a natural science, ecology focuses on understanding the physical, chemical and biological interactions that take ...
Aquatic ecology is defined as the study of the biodiversity, quality, and quantity of freshwaters, which are being adversely affected by human activities such as groundwater pollution. Efforts to mitigate pollution and improve aquatic ecosystems are ongoing through education and precautionary measures wor...
Ecotourism is a combination of ecology (the study of systems of living things) and tourism. It is defined as “responsible travel to natural areas that preserves the environment and improves the welfare of the local people” by the International Ecotourism Society. Actually, ecotourism can mean tr...
This contribution proposes the meta-ecosystem concept as a natural extension of the metapopulation and metacommunity concepts. A meta-ecosystem is defined as a set of ecosystems connected by spatial flows of energy, materials and organisms across ecosystem boundaries. This concept provides a powerful th...
plant diseases (e.g., sudden oak death and Jarrah dieback, rootrot in trees in Australia) as well as animal diseases (e.g., brucellosis, rinderpest, chytridiomycosis). One hypothesis that is actively being studied is the dilution effect, which posits that disease risk will decrease as the...
Restoration ecology has been established as a discipline since 1980s and is broadly defined as the study of restoring and managing ecological integrity. Ecological integrity includes biodiversity, ecological pattern and process, regional and historical context, and social practices for sustainability. ...
Finally, lyrebirds may mimic typical participants of a terrestrial mobbing chorus to create a mobbing chorus that is particularly informative to ground-dwelling species such as lyrebirds (vi). If so, then the species mimicked by lyrebirds should be similar to the suite of species that mob ...
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Vertical collectivism includes perceiving the selfas a part (or an aspect) of a collec... TM Singelis,HC Triandis,DPS Bhawuk,... - Cross-Cultural Research: The Journal of Comparative Social Science 被引量: 1916发表: 1995年 Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions of Individualism and Collectivism: ...
as a way to label the microbial community, in a method known asstable isotope probing(SIP). For example,13C-labeled cellulose can be added to soil, and the13C allowed to be incorporated into the microbial biomass during metabolism. This approach is based on the principle that organisms ...