The Ecology Book

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180 C itizen science is research and observation carried out by nonprofessional individuals, teams, or networks of volunteers, o ...

181 Observations of birds made and recorded by “citizen scientists” in parks and gardens can provide ecologists with vital data ...

182 City. No tagged monarchs were found, however, and it was not until the following January that the Urquharts found one—tagged ...

183 Young volunteers at Siyeh Pass, in the state of Montana, record their sightings of mountain goats for the high country citiz ...

184 See also: Predator–prey equations 44–49 ■ Non-consumptive effects of predators on their prey 76–77 ■ The Verhulst equation 1 ...

185 See also: Field experiments 54–55 ■ Animal ecology 106–113 ■ Island biogeog raphy 14 4 –149 ■ Big ecology 153 ■ Endangered h ...

186 A metapopulation is a combination of separate, local populations of the same species. The term was coined by American ecolog ...

187 The Glanville fritillary butterfly metapopulation, in its fragmented habitats on Finland’s Åland Islands, provided the ideal ...

188 ORGANISMS CHANGE AND CONSTRUCT THE WORLD IN WHICH THEY LIVE NICHE CONSTRUCTION A ll organisms alter the environment to cater ...

189 Earthworms leave castings that make them valuable natural fertilizers. They not only transform the soil for themselves but a ...

190 LOCAL COMMUNITIES THAT EXCHANGE COLONISTS METACOMMUNITIES O ne of the limitations of traditional community ecology was that ...

191 theory the different patches consist of entire communities that include a number of interacting species. What is a metacommu ...

192 The answer may be that both are right, and the difference simply depends on scale. The benefit of metacommunity theory is th ...

193 Rockpools in a wave-cut platform form a metacommunity on Eysturoy in the Faroe Islands. The rockpools are separate between t ...

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F or centuries, scientists in the Western world tried to reconcile the findings of geologists and fossil hunters with literal in ...

seas as a key supporting argument for evolution. Wallace noted, for example, the ocean straits that produced a sharp division be ...

198 I n the early 19th century, there were contradictory explanations for the development of Earth’s landforms, plants, and anim ...