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  2. Glossary of ecology - Wikipedia

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    Also Gause's law. A biological rule which states that two species cannot coexist in the same environment if they are competing for exactly the same resource, often memorably summarized as "complete competitors cannot coexist". coniferous forest One of the primary terrestrial biomes, culminating in the taiga. conservation biology The study of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting and ...

  3. Glossary of environmental science - Wikipedia

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    generalist species - those able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources. gene - a locatable region of genomic sequence, corresponding to a unit of inheritance, which is associated with regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions.

  4. Ecological niche - Wikipedia

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    His work inspired many others to develop models to explain how many and how similar coexisting species could be within a given community, and led to the concepts of 'niche breadth' (the variety of resources or habitats used by a given species), 'niche partitioning' (resource differentiation by coexisting species), and 'niche overlap' (overlap ...

  5. Multimodality - Wikipedia

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    These narratives include a variety of semiotic resources and modes ranging from the strategic use of different typographies and blank spaces, to the inclusion of drawings, photos, maps and diagrams that do not correspond to the usual notion of illustration, but are an indissoluble part of the plot, with specific functions in their contribution ...

  6. List of online encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    Articles on a wide variety of mathematics related topics Free On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: English Information about hundred thousands of integer sequences, including formulas, related sequences, programs, etc. Free/CC BY-NC 3.0: PlanetMath: English Mathematics related topics and articles Free/GNU: Stacks Project: English

  7. Generalist and specialist species - Wikipedia

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    A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet). A specialist species can thrive only in a narrow range of environmental conditions or has a limited diet.

  8. Thesaurus (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus is composed by at least three elements: 1-a list of words (or terms), 2-the relationship amongst the words (or terms), indicated by their hierarchical relative position (e.g. parent/broader term; child/narrower term, synonym, etc.), 3-a set of rules on how to use the thesaurus.

  9. Wikipedia:Glossary - Wikipedia

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    footnote marker – the bracketed, superscripted number, letter, or word; like these dummy examples. [1] [a] [Note 1] footnote label – the part between the brackets; following the above example: '1', 'a', or 'Note 1'. footnote – the full note or reference, displayed automatically in an ordered list in the Notes and references appendix of ...