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The variety of living things. Including their diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity

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Biodiversity

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A small geographic area that contains a large number of threatened or endangered species and an exceptional concentration of species

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Biodiversity hotspots

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Any of the various chemical circuits occurring in the ecosystem, involving both biotic and abiotic factors

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Biogeochemical cycle

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The accumulation of persistent chemicals in the living tissues of consumers in the food chain. Animals higher up in the food chain have a greater concentration of chemicals

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Biological magnification

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The amount or mass of living organic material in an ecosystem

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Biomass

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The human desire to affiliate with other life and it’s many forms

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Biophilia

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The use of living organisms to detoxify and restore polluted ecosystems

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Bioremediation

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An animal that mainly eats other animals

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Carnivore

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The use and reuse of chemical elements such as carbon with an ecosystem

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Chemical cycling

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All the organisms inhabiting and potentially interacting in a particular area

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Community

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The concept of populations of two species cannot coexist in a community if their niches are nearly identical

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Competitive exclusion principle

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A goal oriented science that seeks to understand encounter the loss of biodiversity

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Conservation biology

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An organism that obtains its food by eating plants or animals

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Consumer

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Adaptive coloration that makes an organism difficult to spot against its background

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Cryptic coloration

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An organism that converts organic molecules to an inorganic form by breaking them down

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Decomposer

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An organism that consumes dead organic matter

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Detritivore

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Dead organic matter

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Detritus

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A force that damages a biological community by destroying organisms and altering the availability of resources

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Disturbance

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The sum total of the species use of the biotic and abiotic resources of its habitat

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Ecological niche

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The process of biological community change resulting from a disturbance

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Ecological succession

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All of the organisms in a given area along with the abiotic factors in with which they interact

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Ecosystem

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Functions performed by an ecosystem that directly or indirectly benefit people

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Ecosystem services

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A species whose distribution is limited to a specific geographic area

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Endemic species

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The passage of energy through the components of an ecosystem

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Energy flow

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The sequence of food transfers between the trophic levels of the community

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Food chain

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A network of interconnected food chains

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Food web

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An organism that is exploited by a parasite or pathigen

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Host

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Competition between populations of two or more species that require similar limited resources

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Interspecific competition

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Any interaction between members of different species

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Interspecific interactions

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A species his impact on the community is much larger than it’s biomass

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Keystone species

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A regional assemblage of interacting ecosystems

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Landscape

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The scientific study of the biodiversity of interacting ecosystems

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Landscape ecology

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A series of small clumps or narrow strip of quality habitat that connects otherwise isolated patches of habitat

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Movement corridor

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And interspecific interaction in which both partners benefit

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Mutualism

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The conversion of atmospheric nitrogen to nitrogen compounds of plants can use

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Nitrogen fixation

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An organism that lives in or on a host from which it obtains nourishment. The host organism is harmed

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Parasite

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And interaction between species in which one species kills and eats the other

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Predation

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An organism that only eats autotrophs; an herbivore

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Primary consumer

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The amount of solar energy converted to chemical energy by autotroph’s in an ecosystem during a given time.

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Primary production

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A type of ecological succession in which a biological community begins in the area without soil

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Primary succession

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An organism that makes organic food molecules from carbon dioxide, water, and are in organic raw materials

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Producer

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A diagram depicting the cumulative loss of energy with each transfer in a food chain

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Pyramid of production

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The proportional representation of the species in the biological community

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Relative abundance

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A field of ecology that develops methods of returning degraded ecosystems to their natural state

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Restoration ecology

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A type of ecological succession that occurs when a disturbance has destroyed an existing biological community but left the soil intact

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Secondary succession

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The variety of species that make up a biological community

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Species diversity

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The long-term prosperity of human societies and the ecosystems that support them

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Sustainable development

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The bright color pattern, often yellow, red, or orange in combination with black, of animals that have affected chemical defenses

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Warning coloration

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The part of an ecosystem where a chemical, such as carbon or nitrogen, accumulates or is stockpiled outside of living organisms

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Abiotic reservoir

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