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1History of ecology — Ecology is generally spoken of as a new science, having only become prominent in the second half of the 20th Century. More precisely, there is agreement that ecology emerged as a distinct discipline at the turn of the 20th Century, and that it… …
2Ecology — For other uses, see Ecology (disambiguation). Ecology …
3David Orton (deep ecology) — David Keith Orton David Orton at home in Nova Scotia Full name David Keith Orton Born 6 January 1934(1934 01 06) Portsmouth, England …
4community ecology — Introduction study of the organization and functioning of communities (community), which are assemblages of interacting populations of the species living within a particular area or habitat. As populations of species interact with one …
5Fire ecology — The Old Fire burning in the San Bernardino Mountains (image taken from the International Space Station) Fire ecology is concerned with the processes linking the natural incidence of fire in an ecosystem and the ecological effects of this fire.… …
6Resilience (ecology) — For other uses, see Resilience (disambiguation). Lake and Mulga ecosystems with alternative stable states[1] In ecology, resilience is the capacity of an ecosyst …
7Cultural ecology — studies the relationship between a given society and its natural environment as well as the life forms and ecosystems that support its lifeways[citation needed]. This may be carried out diachronically (examining entities that existed in different …
8Acoustic ecology — Acoustic ecology, Sometimes called soundscape ecology, is the relationship, mediated through sound, between living beings and their environment. Acoustic ecology studies started in the late 1960s with R. Murray Schafer and his team at Simon… …
9Pelagic Ecology of the Low Salinity San Francisco Estuary — Pelagic organisms spend all or part of their lives in the open water, where habitat isdefined not by edges but by physiological tolerance to salinity and temperature. The LowSalinity Zone (LSZ) of the San Francisco Estuary constitutes a habitat… …
10Theoretical ecology — Mathematical models developed in theoretical ecology predict complex food webs are less stable than simple webs.[1]:75–77[2]:64 …
