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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.
Pages in category "Community ecology" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ... Colonisation (biology) Colony (biology) Community (ecology)
His research is notable for three areas in biology and ecology: (1) Scaling in Biology – Enquist is notable in biology for his work with Geoffrey West and James H. Brown , in understanding the origin and diversity of organismal form, function, and diversity by developing general models for the origin of allometry and scaling laws in biology.
At the beginning of the section "Communal life of organism" of his later book Ecology of Plants (Warming and Vahl 1909), Warming clearly emphasizes the importance of mutual dependence among coexisting species: "The manifold, complex, mutual relations subsisting among organisms are matters of such profound import to plant-life and plant ...
In the study of community ecology, competition within and between members of a species is an important biological interaction. Competition is one of many interacting biotic and abiotic factors that affect community structure, species diversity, and population dynamics (shifts in a population over time). [3]
The diversity of species and genes in ecological communities affects the functioning of these communities. These ecological effects of biodiversity in turn are affected by both climate change through enhanced greenhouse gases, aerosols and loss of land cover [citation needed], and biological diversity, causing a rapid loss of biodiversity and extinctions of species and local populations.
An ecological metacommunity is a set of interacting communities which are linked by the dispersal of multiple, potentially interacting species. [1] [2] [3] The term is derived from the field of community ecology, which is primarily concerned with patterns of species distribution, abundance and interactions.
Community ecology is the study of the interactions among a collection of species that inhabit the same geographic area. Community ecologists study the determinants of patterns and processes for two or more interacting species. Research in community ecology might measure species diversity in grasslands in relation to soil fertility. It might ...