BMC EcologyImage Competition 2015: the winning images
... close proximity to the people. This speaks to the adaptability of these amazing creatures and serves as a hauntingly prophetic message of the future. If more and more habitats are decimated, human-wildlife interactions will become more frequent and extensive with more fluid boundaries between “natur ...
... close proximity to the people. This speaks to the adaptability of these amazing creatures and serves as a hauntingly prophetic message of the future. If more and more habitats are decimated, human-wildlife interactions will become more frequent and extensive with more fluid boundaries between “natur ...
Biology - Images
... an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions. No two species can share the same niche in the same habitat ...
... an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions. No two species can share the same niche in the same habitat ...
LOCAL NATURE CONSERVATION SITES
... dry heath and acid grassland. One of a suite of wetland sites in the area This small site forms a fairly steep sided river valley, with semi-natural broadleaved woodland, gorse scrub and acid grassland. Good diversity of plant species and particularly important for the native bluebell This site cont ...
... dry heath and acid grassland. One of a suite of wetland sites in the area This small site forms a fairly steep sided river valley, with semi-natural broadleaved woodland, gorse scrub and acid grassland. Good diversity of plant species and particularly important for the native bluebell This site cont ...
Grasslands and Tundra
... Found in areas of moderate rainfall, typically between 25 and 75 cm per year. Dry seasons sufficient to exclude most trees. ...
... Found in areas of moderate rainfall, typically between 25 and 75 cm per year. Dry seasons sufficient to exclude most trees. ...
the intermediate disturbance hypothesis and its applicability to
... generation and re-colonisation of patches at the relevant scales. That Connell specifically excluded plankton from his hypothesis is not an argument that it cannot be applied, or should not be applied. Which scales matter to plankton? Despite the vastness of the pelagic habitats of large lakes and, ...
... generation and re-colonisation of patches at the relevant scales. That Connell specifically excluded plankton from his hypothesis is not an argument that it cannot be applied, or should not be applied. Which scales matter to plankton? Despite the vastness of the pelagic habitats of large lakes and, ...
Evolutionarily stable range limits set by interspecific competition
... stable limit can be set by a lack of resources, even in the absence of competition. Continuing with the finch–seed example, it may be impossible for small finches to consume large seeds, because no individuals in the population are able to crack them. Then, as the small seed disappears, despite the ...
... stable limit can be set by a lack of resources, even in the absence of competition. Continuing with the finch–seed example, it may be impossible for small finches to consume large seeds, because no individuals in the population are able to crack them. Then, as the small seed disappears, despite the ...
Sycamore Floodplain Forest - Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program
... floodplain classification studies in the Susquehanna and Ohio River Basins. It is related to the Sycamore (river birch) - Box-elder Floodplain forest concept in Fike (1999), now separated into two types to reflect the near absence of river birch in the Ohio Drainage. ...
... floodplain classification studies in the Susquehanna and Ohio River Basins. It is related to the Sycamore (river birch) - Box-elder Floodplain forest concept in Fike (1999), now separated into two types to reflect the near absence of river birch in the Ohio Drainage. ...
SED221 - National Open University of Nigeria
... systematic study of how organisms interact with one another and with their physical and chemical environment. Ecological interactions start within and between populations and they extend on through communities, ecosystem and the biosphere. In this unit, emphasis is on population ecology, its charact ...
... systematic study of how organisms interact with one another and with their physical and chemical environment. Ecological interactions start within and between populations and they extend on through communities, ecosystem and the biosphere. In this unit, emphasis is on population ecology, its charact ...
Roads have well-documented significant and widespread ecological
... across multiple scales, often far beyond the area of the road “footprint”. Such impacts often create large and extensive departures from the natural conditions to which organisms are adapted, which increase with the extent and/or density of the road network. Road density is a useful metric or indica ...
... across multiple scales, often far beyond the area of the road “footprint”. Such impacts often create large and extensive departures from the natural conditions to which organisms are adapted, which increase with the extent and/or density of the road network. Road density is a useful metric or indica ...
The effect of forest stand characteristics on spider diversity and
... specialists (Floren et al. 2011). Vice versa, severe management practices that tend to ...
... specialists (Floren et al. 2011). Vice versa, severe management practices that tend to ...
Biological Diversity
... from this disease.4 Once thought to be caused by filth or bad air (hence the name malaria, from the Latin for "bad air"), malaria is actually caused by parasitic microbes (four species of the protozoa Plasmodium). These microbes affect and are carried by Anopheles mosquitoes, which then transfer the ...
... from this disease.4 Once thought to be caused by filth or bad air (hence the name malaria, from the Latin for "bad air"), malaria is actually caused by parasitic microbes (four species of the protozoa Plasmodium). These microbes affect and are carried by Anopheles mosquitoes, which then transfer the ...
Marine ecological research in seashore and seafloor systems
... have focused attention on those species they could most easily manipulate, i.e. small to moderately sized organisms that do not wander widely and are abundant in small areas amenable to experimentation. This selectively excludes certain groups of species from study, thus providing a potentially bias ...
... have focused attention on those species they could most easily manipulate, i.e. small to moderately sized organisms that do not wander widely and are abundant in small areas amenable to experimentation. This selectively excludes certain groups of species from study, thus providing a potentially bias ...
Camera technology for monitoring marine biodiversity and human
... essential tool for monitoring at all scales, from individuals to populations and communities up to entire marine ecosystems. Here we review the use of remote cameras to monitor the marine environment in relation to human activity, and consider emerging and potential future applications. Rapid techn ...
... essential tool for monitoring at all scales, from individuals to populations and communities up to entire marine ecosystems. Here we review the use of remote cameras to monitor the marine environment in relation to human activity, and consider emerging and potential future applications. Rapid techn ...
A derivative approach to endangered species conservation.
... If carefully implemented, a derivative product could concurrently finance species recovery efforts and align the interests of landowners and conservationists, making earlier and private interventions more likely. By issuing a derivative whose value is based on the population viability of a species p ...
... If carefully implemented, a derivative product could concurrently finance species recovery efforts and align the interests of landowners and conservationists, making earlier and private interventions more likely. By issuing a derivative whose value is based on the population viability of a species p ...
introduced and invasive fish species
... Typically an introduced species must survive at low population densities before it becomes invasive in a new location. At low population densities, it can be difficult for the introduced species to reproduce and maintain itself in a new location, so a species might be transported to a location a num ...
... Typically an introduced species must survive at low population densities before it becomes invasive in a new location. At low population densities, it can be difficult for the introduced species to reproduce and maintain itself in a new location, so a species might be transported to a location a num ...
Ecological Restoration
... lacking. Then we go about trying to restore what is lacking. But a wide variety of answers have been put forward to answer the question: What is restoration? At the extreme are those who argue that all human impacts on nature are "unnatural" and therefore undesirable and that the only true goal of r ...
... lacking. Then we go about trying to restore what is lacking. But a wide variety of answers have been put forward to answer the question: What is restoration? At the extreme are those who argue that all human impacts on nature are "unnatural" and therefore undesirable and that the only true goal of r ...
ppt
... Ice scour can create open patches; experiments mimicked these disturbances (rockweed stands cleared in 1996 and followed through ...
... Ice scour can create open patches; experiments mimicked these disturbances (rockweed stands cleared in 1996 and followed through ...
Lugo et al. 2012 - Penn State University
... omnivory contributed to urban colonization. A common omnivorous native species in urban habitats was the flycatcher Tyrannus dominicensus, which benefited from abundant insect prey attracted to lights at night and reduced nest predation from nesting in utility poles (Vázquez Plass, 2008). In additio ...
... omnivory contributed to urban colonization. A common omnivorous native species in urban habitats was the flycatcher Tyrannus dominicensus, which benefited from abundant insect prey attracted to lights at night and reduced nest predation from nesting in utility poles (Vázquez Plass, 2008). In additio ...
4: Interventions To Maintain Biological Diversity
... captive breeding to produce stocks for reintroduction into the wild. The golden lion tamarin program in Brazil (11) has been successful for example, Less attention has been focused on reintroducing threatened plant species, but the recent reintroduction of a wild olive tree species on the island of ...
... captive breeding to produce stocks for reintroduction into the wild. The golden lion tamarin program in Brazil (11) has been successful for example, Less attention has been focused on reintroducing threatened plant species, but the recent reintroduction of a wild olive tree species on the island of ...
Habitat
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A habitat is an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by human, a particular species of animal, plant, or other type of organism.A place where a living thing lives is its habitat. It is a place where it can find food, shelter, protection and mates for reproduction. It is the natural environment in which an organism lives, or the physical environment that surrounds a species population.A habitat is made up of physical factors such as soil, moisture, range of temperature, and availability of light as well as biotic factors such as the availability of food and the presence of predators. A habitat is not necessarily a geographic area—for a parasitic organism it is the body of its host, part of the host's body such as the digestive tract, or a cell within the host's body.