ecological zone

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• ecological zone — ekologinė zona statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Nuo klimato sąlygų priklausoma organizmų, jų genčių ir šeimų arealų ribojama teritorija. Kinta nuo ašigalių link pusiaujo ir nuo vandenynų link žemynų. Išskiriamos ekologinės… …   Ekologijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas

• Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone — The Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone (Croatian: Zaštićeni ekološko ribolovni pojas , ZERP) is a protected fishing area over Croatia s Exclusive Economic Zone.ZERP was initiated by the Croatian Peasant Party, then a member of Croatia s… …   Wikipedia

• Ecological threshold — can be described as the point at which a relatively small change in external conditions causes a rapid change in an ecosystem. When an ecological threshold has been passed, the ecosystem may no longer be able to return to its state. The… …   Wikipedia

• Ecological facilitation — Facilitation describes species interactions that benefit at least one of the participants and cause harm to neither (Stachowicz 2001). Facilitations can be categorized as mutualisms, in which both species benefit, or commensalisms, in which one… …   Wikipedia

• Ecological niche — Black smokers create ecological niches with their unusual environment In ecology, a niche (   …   Wikipedia

• Ecological extinction — Types and definitions of extinctions = Estes, Duggins, and Rathburn (1989) recognize three distinct types of extinction.Global extinction is defined as “the ubiquitous disappearance of a species. [Estes et al. The ecology of extinctions in kelp… …   Wikipedia

• Ecological Forecasting — The ultimate goal of the approach is to provide people such as resource managers with information that they can then use to respond, in advance, to those impending changes.One of the most important environmental factors impacting organisms today… …   Wikipedia

• zone — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ narrow, wide ▪ marginal, peripheral, transition, transitional, twilight ▪ a transition zone between tropical and arid vegetations …   Collocations dictionary

• ecological competition — A term derived from the biological sciences to denote the process of interaction between social groups, each seeking to gain access to a limited supply of the necessities of life, such as living space. See also concentric zone theory ; ecology ;… …   Dictionary of sociology

• ecological invasion — A term referring to the process by which social groups or activities which are better adapted to a given environment than are its existing inhabitants or activities enter and eventually dominate it. See also concentric zone theory ; ecology ;… …   Dictionary of sociology

• ecological succession — A term used in urban ecology , denoting the replacement of one dominant group or activity by another, following an invasion of the territory of the latter by the former. See also concentric zone theory ; ecology ; human ecology …   Dictionary of sociology