Ecosystems

** Ecosystems: biodiversity — biome — habitat — plankton — thermocline — carbon cycle — water cycle — nitrogen cycle — food web — trophic level — saprobe — decomposition

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 79 ( 2-3 ), 259-269.

* Invasiveness information from Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk ( PIER )

Nature ’ s Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems.

Ecosystems, for example, contain populations of individuals that aggregate into distinct ecological communities.

***** Ecosystems ( biotopes )

Ecosystems are composed of dynamically interacting parts including organisms, the communities they make up, and the non-living components of their environment.

Ecosystems in similar environments that are located in different parts of the world can end up doing things very differently simply because they have different pools of species present.

* HERMES Project, or the Hotspot Ecosystems Research on the Margins of European Seas

* Endangered Ecosystems of the United States: A Preliminary Assessment of Loss and Degradation

A. Estes, M. T. Tinker, T. M. Williams, D. F. Doak " Killer Whale Predation on Sea Otters Linking Oceanic and Nearshore Ecosystems ", Science, October 16, 1998: Vol.

Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 50: 11-28.

The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, originally called the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project is a large-scale ecological experiment looking at the effects of habitat fragmentation on tropical rainforest ; it is one of the most expensive biology experiments ever run.

Since that time Dr. Church has led a number of programs with CSIRO Division of Oceanography and was Program Leader of the Oceanography Program ( now non-existent ), Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions ; former Project Leader, Leader, Southern Ocean Processes Project ( now non-existent ), CSIRO Division of Marine and atmospheric Research, Polar Waters Program ( now-non-existent ), Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre.

( 2009 ) " Wetland Ecosystems ".

* NOAA Economics of Ecosystems Data & Products – http :// www. economics. noaa. gov /? goal = ecosystems

" A Global Crisis for Seagrass Ecosystems " BioScience December 2006 / Vol.

* Pelagic Ecosystems Department, which studies the ecology of plankton with regard to sea ice and sea shelf systems.

Ecosystems provide a variety of goods and services upon which people depend ; the principles of ecosystem management suggest that rather than managing individual species, natural resources should be managed at the level of the ecosystem itself.

From 1996 to 2000 he was a consultant at the University of Warwick jointly to the Ecosystems Unit of the Biology Dept and the Mathematics Institute.

Ecosystems sustain life-supporting functions and produce natural capital through the regulation of continental climates, global biogeochemical cycles, water filtration, soils, food, fibres, medicines, erosion control, and many other natural features of scientific, historical, economic, or intrinsic value.

Ecosystems maintain biophysical feedback mechanisms that modulate metabolic rates and evolutionary dynamics between living ( biotic ) and nonliving ( abiotic ) components of the planet.

Ecosystems continually exchange energy and carbon with the wider environment ; mineral nutrients, on the other hand, are mostly cycled back and forth between plants, animals, microbes and the soil.

* Ecosystems Climate Alliance, an alliance of eleven NGOs committed to keeping natural terrestrial ecosystems intact

* Jim Highsmith ( editor ) Agile Software Development Ecosystems ISBN 0-201-76043-6