An example of a biotic factor is the extent ofpredationin an ecosystem. If there is an increase in the number of predators, predation activity would likely increase. This, in turn, could significantly lessen thepopulation densityof their prey. If their prey is akey species, meaning another gro...
Tundras are most common in the Low Arctic, and polar barrens are dominant in the High Arctic. The Russian term “tundra” is derived from the Finnish word tunturi, meaning treeless heights. Tundra is now used in a general sense to describe any cold-climate landscape having vegetation without...
Ecosystem and ecotomo: a nature or society-nature relationship? The notion of entorno is discussed and its mutual dependence upon the organism is emphasised. Both the etymology and meaning of ethos , oikos , entorno a... A Malpartida,L Lavanderos - 《Acta Biotheoretica》 被引量: 15发表:...
When species from different functional groups occur together, they can exhibit complementary resource-use, meaning that they use different resources or use the same resources at different times. For example, two animal predators may consume different prey items, so they are less likely to compete ...
The meaning of each metric is described in Table 1. In this study, the selected landscape index was calculated using FRAGSTATS 4.2 software. Table 1. Landscape pattern indexes and meanings (Yushanjiang et al., 2018). Empty CellExplanationSymbolWeight NP (C1) The heterogeneity and fragmentation ...
In the ecosystem research context, the concept of competitive advantage has a slightly different meaning than the traditional definition of Porter’s competitive advantage. Originally, it referred to the ability of a firm to perform better than others did in the same market or industry. Ecosystems ...
Patterns of meaningWe address the question of how shared meaning emerges in mass collaboration settings in education when it is not bound to a predefined curriculum. We take social tagging as an example where we examinedoi:10.1007/978-3-319-13536-6_8Tobias Ley...
Keep business intelligence front-of-mind: Know the questions your team wants to ask and the kind of answers they expect, then build toward that. Know your data and processes: Know the details of your data including its source, meaning, different processing (manual and systems) it powers, to...
Ecosystem conditions at the regional level are critical factors for environmental management, public awareness, and land use decision making. Regional ecosystem conditions may be examined from the perspectives of ecosystem health, vulnerability, and secu
As Kosoy and Corbera [25] indicate, the valuation exercises of single ecosystem functions are often misleading because their search for marginal values may have no real meaning, particularly when the critical question is how to protect the resilience of ecosystems [26]. The authors warn that ...