Ecology

Ecology

Contributors in Ecology

Ecology

Digging soil to a certain depth--12 inches, say, and in rows--and loosening the soil to a certain depth (often another 12 inches) below that before filling back in. Used to prepare soil beds where ...

Desalinization plant

Biology; Ecology

A site where seawater is boiled to separate steam from salt; the steam condenses into fresh water. Because this requires a large amount of energy--normally provided by burning coal or ...

Equilibrium success strategy

Biology; Ecology

Species that survive through low death rate, relatively little colonisation or expansion, moderately frequent reproduction cycles, and other steady-state patterns of adaptation. Tends to be the ...

Meme

Biology; Ecology

A unit of cultural, as opposed to genetic, inheritance. Recent research supports Susan Blackmore's theory that the human brain evolved rapidly to make itself a better habitat for human memes. Such ...

Capillary action

Biology; Ecology

Water movement through tiny absorbent channels, often against the force of gravity, made possible by water's firm hydrogen-oxygen bondings. Capillary action plays a major role in water diffusion ...

Reinhabitation

Biology; Ecology

The bioregional goal of living consciously and sensitively in one's locale. This includes giving key decision-making power, economic and political, to locals who know what the place where they live ...

Frequency dependence

Biology; Ecology

An interspecific equivalent of density-dependence in which a species grows when its population is low compared to another species and stops growing when the population is high. See Density ...