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Negative density-dependence, or density-dependent restriction, describes a situation in which population growth is curtailed by crowding, predators and competition. [citation needed] In cell biology, it describes the reduction in cell division. When a cell population reaches a certain density, the amount of required growth factors and nutrients ...
Population. A group of conspecific individuals that is demographically, genetically, or spatially disjunct from other groups of individuals. Aggregation. A spatially clustered group of individuals. Deme. A group of individuals more genetically similar to each other than to other individuals, usually with some degree of spatial isolation as well.
Autecology. Autecology is an approach in ecology that seeks to explain the distribution and abundance of species by studying interactions of individual organisms with their environments. An autecological approach differs from ecosystem ecology, community ecology (synecology) and population ecology (demecology) by greater recognition of the ...
Source–sink dynamics is a theoretical model used by ecologists to describe how variation in habitat quality may affect the population growth or decline of organisms. Since quality is likely to vary among patches of habitat, it is important to consider how a low quality patch might affect a population. In this model, organisms occupy two ...
The model was later extended to include density-dependent prey growth and a functional response of the form developed by C. S. Holling; a model that has become known as the Rosenzweig–MacArthur model. [21] Both the Lotka–Volterra and Rosenzweig–MacArthur models have been used to explain the dynamics of natural populations of predators and ...
The Janzen–Connell hypothesis is a well-known hypothesis for the maintenance of high species biodiversity in the tropics. It was published independently in the early 1970s by Daniel Janzen, [1] who focused on tropical trees, and Joseph Connell [2] who discussed trees and marine invertebrates. According to their hypothesis, host -specific ...
A bear with a salmon. Interspecific interactions such as predation are a key aspect of community ecology.. In ecology, a community is a group or association of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area at the same time, also known as a biocoenosis, biotic community, biological community, ecological community, or life assemblage.
Delayed density dependence has been used by ecologists to explain population cycles. [2] Ecologists have been unable to successfully explain regular population cycles for many decades; delayed density dependence may hold the answer. [2] Here populations are allowed to increase above their normal capacity because there is a time lag until ...