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  2. Generalist and specialist species - Wikipedia

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    Generalists such as raccoons can sometimes adapt to urban environments and other areas modified by humans, becoming examples of urban wildlife. Omnivores are usually generalists. Herbivores are often specialists, but those that eat a variety of plants may be

  3. Ecological network - Wikipedia

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    In highly nested networks, guilds of species that share an ecological niche contain both generalists (species with many links) and specialists (species with few links, all shared with the generalists). [13] In mutualistic networks, nestedness is often asymmetrical, with specialists of one guild linked to the generalists of the partner guild. [14]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Polylecty - Wikipedia

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    The term polylecty or generalist is used in pollination ecology to refer to bees that collect pollen from a range of unrelated plants. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Honey bees exemplify this behavior, collecting nectar from a wide array of flowers.

  6. Abundance (ecology) - Wikipedia

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    In ecology, local abundance is the relative representation of a species in a particular ecosystem. [1] It is usually measured as the number of individuals found per sample. The ratio of abundance of one species to one or multiple other species living in an ecosystem is referred to as relative species abundances. [1]

  7. Organizational ecology - Wikipedia

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    The first explicit formulation of a theory of population ecology, by Michael T. Hannan and the late John H. Freeman in their 1977 American Journal of Sociology piece "The population ecology of organizations" and later refined in their 1989 book Organizational Ecology, examines the environment in which organizations compete and how a process ...

  8. Species sorting - Wikipedia

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    Species sorting is a mechanism in the metacommunity framework of ecology whereby species distributions and abundances can be related to the environmental or biotic conditions in a particular habitat. The species sorting paradigm [ 1 ] describes a system of habitat patches with different environmental conditions that organisms can move between.

  9. Category:Ecology terminology - Wikipedia

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