Table of Contents
see also:
ecosystem
- climate niche: microclimate / see also: refugia
- nutrient sensitive landscape
- flagship species / iconic animals / celebrity species article
- foundation species: forms base for ecosystem (grass)
- indicator species: bio indicator
- keystone species: high impact relative to its percentage of total biomass, often a predator (bird of prey)
- invasive species: disruptive newcomer
ecosystem_dynamics
- eutrophication: nutrient stacking causing disruptive change to ecosystem (Baltic sea plankton bloom)
- genetic erosion: decline of genepool / number of organisms in the species involved in reproduction
- regime shifts > trophic cascade
resilience
- tendency of a fully functional ecosystem to overcome elements of dysfunction. (There is also a tendency in dysfunctional ecosystems to refuse functional elements)
- phenotypic plasticity
ecodiversity
geodiversity
- variation in the topology of the landscape
- amount of microclimates
Biodiversity
- taxon richness: simply the amount of species found
- taxonomic diversity: do you have 4 types of chicken or do you have 1 type of chicken, cactus, toad and butterfly
- feature diversity: richness in functions and behaviours or just reindeer and moss
- allodiversity: amount of species introduced by man
- phenotipic diversity:
- endemism: amount of species with a small range / amount of specialists
- species distribution
genetic diversity
- genotype: a genotype typically implies a measurement of how an individual differs or is specialized within a group
- gene expression
climate_change
- assisted migration: see ecosystem restoration
- global tipping points: safe operating space for humanity
- refugia & sky island ecology
dynamic vegetation model
- dispersal scenarios
- dispersal jumps
- climate excursions
- hysteresis: system (critically) dependent also on previous historic states
ecosystem_restoration
- target ecosystem: chosen or preferred end state
- assisted migration: for species unable to migrate at the required speed needed for surviving climate change
- John D Liu, EEMPC: 1.5 billion hectares are suited to mosaic landscape restoration
- parataxonomy: field-trained biodiversity collection and inventory specialist recruited from local areas, see also: gurukula_botanical_sanctuary
rewilding
- George Monbiot:
- Alan Watson Featherstone: Trees for Life
ethology
- study of animal behaviour
- ethogram: inventory of behaviours & actions of an organism
biology
- Davis' law: soft tussue models along imposed demands
- trophotraxis: physical adation to food source
- phylogeny: evolution / hystory of a species
astrobiology
- forming of aminoacids
- comets: comet gasses + radiation = aminoacids > proteins
- ESA rosetta mission
- comet impact chemistry: university of Kent, Zita Martins
- panspermia
legislation
- REDD: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
- REDD+: inclusive of the rights of indigenous peoples
- law of ecocide
- Bonn Challenge: restore 150 million hectares of lost forests and degraded lands by 2020
markets
- green grabbing: eco-colonialism see: John Vidal
ecomonitoring
- Fluxnet: CO2 forest monitoring towers
- ecohacking / sicizen science
reading:
- Adam Curtis the myth of a balance in nature and Arthur Tansley's dream leading him to develop the idea of ecosystems.