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Spatial heterogeneity — Environments with a wide variety of habitats such as different topographies, soil types, and climates are able to accommodate a greater amount of species. Spatial heterogeneity is a concept parallel to ecosystem productivity, the species richness … Wikipedia
Spatial ecology — is a specialization of ecology and geography that is concerned with the identification of spatial patterns and their relationships to ecological events. In spatial ecology, ecological events can be explained through the detection of patterns at a … Wikipedia
Spatial analysis — In statistics, spatial analysis or spatial statistics includes any of the formal techniques which study entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties. The phrase properly refers to a variety of techniques, many still in… … Wikipedia
Homogeneity and heterogeneity — For other meanings of heterogeneity, homogeneity, and related words, see Heterogeneity (disambiguation) and Homogeneity (disambiguation). Clam chowder, a heterogeneous material Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity … Wikipedia
Landscape ecology — is the science and art of studying and improving the relationship between spatial pattern and ecological processes on a multitude of scales and organizational levels (Wu 2006, 2008; Wu and Hobbs 2007). In a broad sense, landscape ecology… … Wikipedia
Metapopulation — A metapopulation consists of a group of spatially separated populations of the same species which interact at some level. The term metapopulation was coined by Richard Levins in 1970 to describe a model of population dynamics of insect pests in… … Wikipedia
Restoration ecology — is the study of renewing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through active human intervention. Restoration ecology specifically refers to the scientific study that has evolved as recently as the 1980s. Land managers, laypeople, and… … Wikipedia
evolution — evolutional, adj. evolutionally, adv. /ev euh looh sheuhn/ or, esp. Brit., /ee veuh /, n. 1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. 2. a product of such development; something… … Universalium
Chemical imaging — (as quantitative chemical mapping) is the analytical capability to create a visual image of components distribution from simultaneous measurement of spectra and spatial, time informations.[1][2] The main idea for chemical imaging, the analyst may … Wikipedia
List of Cumacea literature — Extensive literature list on Cumaceans. Contents: Top · 0–9 · A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A … Wikipedia
