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Ecology

Horizontales
A geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscapes, work together to form a bubble of life.
The series of changes that the members of a species undergo as they pass from the beginning of a given developmental stage to the inception of that same developmental stage in a subsequent generation.
Deals with the preservation and management of biodiversity and natural resources.
Refers to the animals eaten by other animals.
A nonliving part of an ecosystem; for example temperature, light, and water.
Organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. Sometimes called producers.
The process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change. The differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits characteristic of a population over generations.
A species that originated and developed in its surrounding habitat and has adapted to living in that particular environment.
Individual unable to manufacture its own food from inorganic matter, which therefore consumes other organisms for its source of energy.
How good a particular genotype is at leaving offspring in the next generation relative to how good other genotypes are at it.
Animals that get their energy by eating plants or other animals.
An approach to natural resource management that aims to ensure the long-term sustainability and persistence of an ecosystem's function and services while meeting socioeconomic, political, and cultural needs.
Organism that consumes both plant and animal matter.
Verticales
A living component of an ecosystem; for example organisms, such as plants and animals.
Group of organisms that can reproduce naturally with one another and create fertile offspring.
Each of a number of small areas of habitat, typically of one square meter, selected at random to act as samples for assessing the local distribution of plants or animals.
An ecological relationship between two species that live in close proximity to each other.
A person or an animal that hunts a smaller weaker person or animal.
The binomial name given to a particular species.
Organism that feeds on plant material.
A large area of land that is classified based on the climate, plants and animals that make their homes there. For example, land-based ________ are terrestrial ________, and water-based _______ are called aquatic _______.
Organism that consumes mostly meat, or the flesh of animals.
The development of changes that can be passed genetically over the history of an organism.
Protects the environment from harmful human activities.
Group of individuals of the same species living in a given area or habitat at a given time.
The adjustment of organisms to their environment in order to improve their chances at survival in that environment.
A species that originated somewhere other than its current location and has been introduced to the area where it now lives
Any kind of green plant. Green plants make their food by taking sunlight and using the energy to make sugar.
A line across a habitat or part of a habitat. It can be as simple as a string or rope placed in a line on the ground. The number of organisms of each species along a transect can be observed and recorded at regular intervals.
An organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area.