Agroecology Flashcards
Ecosystem
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
Agroecosystem
Site or integrated region of agricultural production
Biotic factors
Living organisms that interact in the environment
Abiotic factors
Non living physical and chemical components of the environment
Organism
Simplest level
The study of autecology or physiological ecology
Population
Population ecology
Groups of individual of the same species
Community
Community ecology
Assemblage of various species living together in a various place and interacting between each other
Emergent properties
A characteristic of a system that derives from the interaction of its parts and is not observed or inherent in the parts considered seperatly
Species diversit
Number of species that occur in a community
Dominant species
A species that controls the ecosystem
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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