Concepts

The study of reproductive behaviors, nesting habitat selection, and breeding success in bird populations

The modification of environments by organisms in ways that influence resource availability for other species, exemplified by beaver dam construction creating pond habitats.

Environmental processes that filter trait values admitted by changing abiotic and biotic conditions, maintaining trait distributions through phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation

Ecosystem responses to climate change that exert positive or negative feedbacks on climate, mediated by slow-moving factors such as shifts in vegetation community composition

Bird species that utilize nest cavities created by other species rather than excavating their own

The process by which non-native species become established and spread in new environments

Parasitic plants that retain absorptive roots and are capable of carbon fixation through photosynthesis but still need to draw some of their resources from their hosts because they have low nutrient-u...

The process of managing or assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged or destroyed as a means of sustaining ecosystem resilience and conserving biodiversity

Physiological shifts that allow plants to adjust their rates of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance to compensate for changes in temperature

Differences in environmental conditions and species composition between north and south-facing slopes

Competition between fungal groups for limited plant photosynthate allocation

Reduction in photosynthetic efficiency due to excess light exposure

Moving native plants from one location to establish them in a disturbed site as a revegetation technique

Extrapolation of species richness estimates from small plots to larger spatial scales using theoretical scaling relationships