Agroecology Flashcards

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Ecosystem

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A functional system of complementary relations between living organisms and their environment, delimited by arbitrarily chosen boundaries, which in space and time appear to maintain a steady yet dynamic equilibrium

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Agroecosystem

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Site or integrated region of agricultural production

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Biotic factors

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Living organisms that interact in the environment

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Abiotic factors

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Non living physical and chemical components of the environment

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Organism

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Simplest level

The study of autecology or physiological ecology

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Population

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Population ecology

Groups of individual of the same species

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Community

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Community ecology

Assemblage of various species living together in a various place and interacting between each other

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Emergent properties

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A characteristic of a system that derives from the interaction of its parts and is not observed or inherent in the parts considered seperatly

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Species diversit

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Number of species that occur in a community

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Dominant species

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A species that controls the ecosystem

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Tropic structure

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Biomass

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Herbivores

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Consumers

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Predators

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Parasites

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Parisitoids

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Heterotrophs

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Tropic level

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Disturbance

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Resistance/ resilience

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Standing crop

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Gross primary productivity

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Net primary productivity

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Detritivores
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Decomposers
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Biochemical cycle
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Macronutrience
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Micronutrients
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Competition
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Mutualism
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Succession
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Climax
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Dynamic equilibrium
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Energy flow
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Nutrient cycle
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Population regulation mechanism
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Food system
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Global agro-food system.
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Autecology
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Autotrophs
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Bio geochemical cycle
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