20 Terms
Contributors in Ecology
Ecology
Niche differences
Biology; Ecology
Those that keep organisms from competing for resources (like plants that draw nutrients from different depths).
Bioturbation
Biology; Ecology
When organisms disturb sediments, as with worms on the ocean floor that eat food stuck between sand particles.
Thermokarst
Biology; Ecology
High-altitude landscape holed pitted by selective permafrost thawing. Karst without the chemical weathering. .
Denitrification
Biology; Ecology
Chemical conversion of dissolved nitrogen (nitrite) into gaseous nitrogen. Fires on particular soils do this.
