6 Terms
Contributors in Ecology
Ecology
Double-digging
Biology; 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 ...
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 ...
