(par 3. 9.2) Climax community

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia is an example of a climax forest ecosystem. In ecology, climax community, or climatic climax community, is a historic term that expressed a biological community of plants and animals and fungi which, through the…

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(par 3. 9.1) Origens of ‘ecosystem’ & related terms

http://www.barrameda.com.ar/ecology/the-ecosystem.htm Towards 1950 the ecologists elaborated the scientific notion of ecosystem, defining it as the unit of study of ecology. In agreement with such definition, the ecosystem is a delimited…

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(par 3. 9 ) Successional Changes in Communities

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/successional-changes-in-communities-13261649 By: Jamie M. Kneitel (Department of Biological Sciences, California State University) © 2010 Nature Education Citation: Kneitel, J. (2010) Successional Changes in Communities. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):41 In the field of ecology, community composition changes over time. The study of…

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