Phenomenon in which species sometimes prefer low-quality habitat
Ecological traps are scenarios in which rapid environmental change leads organisms to prefer to settle in poor-quality habitats.
The concept stems from the idea that organisms that are actively selecting habitat must rely on environmental cues to help them identify high-quality habitat. If either the habitat quality or the cue changes so that one does not reliably indicate the other, organisms may be lured into poor-quality habitat.
Ecologicaltraps are scenarios in which rapid environmental change leads organisms to prefer to settle in poor-quality habitats. The concept stems from...
An ecological pyramid (also trophic pyramid, Eltonian pyramid, energy pyramid, or sometimes food pyramid) is a graphical representation designed to show...
ended up being trapped on one summit and thus cannot go anywhere else higher. Within behavioral and ecological sciences, evolutionary traps occur when rapid...
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.: 458 The biotic and abiotic components...
Ecological efficiency describes the efficiency with which energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next. It is determined by a combination of...
ecosystems over the whole planet. Ecological diversity includes the variation in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Ecological diversity can also take into...
diverse as crop pests, marine animals, cane toads, and brown snakes. An ecologicaltrap is an instance where organisms choose poor-quality habitats over better...
The balance of nature, also known as ecological balance, is a theory that proposes that ecological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium or homeostasis...
be apex predators as their behavior cannot be observed, and clues to ecological relationships, such as bite marks on bones or shells, do not form a complete...
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variable providing a measure of the passage of energy and an index of ecological structure that increases through the linkages from the lowest to the highest...
A perceptual trap is an ecological scenario in which environmental change, typically anthropogenic, leads an organism to avoid an otherwise high-quality...
relating to adaptation and natural selection are cornerstones of modern ecological theory. Ecosystems are dynamically interacting systems of organisms, the...
Ecological restoration, or ecosystem restoration, is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed...
Ecological yield is the harvestable population growth of an ecosystem. It is most commonly measured in forestry: sustainable forestry is defined as that...
of resources but by the amount of time (i.e. temporal division of the ecological niche). Hawks and owls can hunt the same field or meadow for the same...
Species richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region. Species richness is simply a count of...
in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, Springer International...
Ecological threshold is the point at which a relatively small change or disturbance in external conditions causes a rapid change in an ecosystem. When...
Ecological facilitation or probiosis describes species interactions that benefit at least one of the participants and cause harm to neither. Facilitations...
An ecosystem, short for ecological system, is defined as a collection of interacting organisms within a biophysical environment.: 458 Ecosystems are never...
chains/webs—Concepts and implications for wildlife and human health". Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. 25 (6): 1353–1376. doi:10.1080/10807039.2018.1469398...
and animal species. Methods for assessing wetland functions, wetland ecological health, and general wetland condition have been developed for many regions...
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