biocoenosis

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biocoenosis

the COMMUNITY of organisms which occupies a particular BIOTOPE.

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Even though the concepts, quantities and the explanations found in Orloci's books have a profound potential to serve in assessments of biological community data from ecological point of view, it is likely that the need for revisions and adjustments will come to light as applications progress.

Quantum analysis for biological communities using presence data

The term biodiversity is simple, but it describes an extremely important and complex property of a biological community. I often wonder how many people really understand what biodiversity means and how it is measured.

How is biodiversity measured?

The new experiments are the first to show that sounds affect the structure of a whole biological community, says behavioral ecologist John Swaddle at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

Industrial noise disrupts plants: effects on animals alter dispersal of seeds, pollen

Their findings were surprising: Far from shutting down for the season, "the biological community was still very active," Ashjian said.

High noon in arctic winter

The biological community has traditionally looked down on this type of work, but it will be crucial for promoting the study of novel proteins.

Too many roads not taken in biomarker discovery: the story of missing tools

Damage to the ecosystem - a biological community interacting with its nonliving environment - includes water pollution and reduced biological diversity, including the loss of certain plant species.

'Friend-turned-foe' nitrogen pollution harming environment and human health

Historically, databases have arisen to satisfy diverse needs, whether it address a biological question of interest to an individual scientist, to better serve a particular section of biological community, to coordinate data from sequencing projects, or to facilitate drug discovery in pharmaceutical companies.

ORGENE - A DATABASE OF PRIMERS OF HUMAN GENOME

No, entail and primogeniture were almost ruthlessly biological, but the locus of "selection" was the family as a biological community seeking to perpetuate itself over time.

Mirrors Held Up to Nature

The processes that lead to the accrual of an unwanted biological community at an interface are examined from perspectives of biological, physical, materials, and environmental sciences.

Biofouling

I use data from a terrestrial environment so that students can see that these parameters are useful for any biological community and are not specific to plankton communities.

Using seasonal succession in Lake Plankton to illustrate concepts of community structure & species diversity

No species goes down on its own, not without affecting the larger biological community. We emerged, as a species, from the very biodiversity we are destroying.

How will we live without them? A quarter of the world's mammals may be headed toward extinction

This transformed biological community structure change was accompanied by increased vent fluid temperatures and [S.sub.free] concentrations.

Hydrothermal vent mussel habitat chemistry, pre- and post-eruption at 9[degrees]50' north on the East Pacific Rise