(par 3.10 ) 2014-09-16 Marion Island’s plague of mice
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/environment/marion-island-s-plague-of-mice-1.1563686 August 17 2013 at 09:00am By John Yeld NO HOPE: Seabird expert Andrea Angel examines a six-month-old Wandering Albatross chick on Gough Island that was attacked by house mice during the 2003/4 season. The mice caused the large wound in the chick’s abdomen that is exposing its body cavity, even though the chick is […]
(par 3.10 ) Species Richness and Diversity Species Richness and Diversity
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ecology/Species_Richness_and_Diversity Contents 1 Species Diversity Introduction 2 Abiotic Species Diversity Hypotheses 3 Biotic Species Diversity Hypotheses 4 Rapoport’s Rule 5 Diversity Measurements 1. Species Diversity Introduction Species Richness (s) is a relative term that refers to the number of species in a community, and is directly associated with measuring the diversity of species in a given area. A related term, evenness […]
(par 3.10 ) Ecological stability
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_stability From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ecological stability can refer to types of stability in a continuum ranging from resilience (returning quickly to a previous state) to constancy to persistence. The precise definition depends on the ecosystem in question, the variable or variables of interest, and the overall context. In the context of conservation ecology, stable populations are often defined as ones that […]