#environmentalterminology — Public Fediverse posts

Disturbance (ecology) (Landscape ecology 🏞️)

In ecology, a disturbance is a change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Disturbances often act quickly and with great effect, to alter the physical structure or arrangement of biotic and abiotic elements. A disturbance can also occur over a long ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbance_(ecology)

#Disturbance #Habitat #LandscapeEcology #EcologyTerminology #EcologicalSuccession #EnvironmentalTerminology

Habitat destruction (Habitat 🌄)

Habitat destruction occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species. The organisms once living there have either moved elsewhere, or are dead, leading to a decrease in biodiversity and species numbers. Habitat destruction is in fact the leading cause of biodiversity loss and species extinc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_destruction

#HabitatDestruction #Habitat #Habitats #EnvironmentalTerminology #EnvironmentalConservation

Disturbance (ecology) (Landscape ecology 🏞️)

In ecology, a disturbance is a change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Disturbances often act quickly and with great effect, to alter the physical structure or arrangement of biotic and abiotic elements. A disturbance can also occur over a long ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbance_(ecology)

#Disturbance #Habitat #LandscapeEcology #EcologyTerminology #EcologicalSuccession #EnvironmentalTerminology

Coevolution (Habitat 🌄)

In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same species affecting each other's evolution, as well as gene-culture coevolution. Charles Darwin mentioned evolutionary i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution

#Coevolution #Habitat #EcologicalProcesses #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionOfTheBiosphere #EnvironmentalTerminology

Astroecology (Habitat 🌄)

Astroecology concerns the interactions of biota with space environments. It studies resources for life on planets, asteroids and comets, around various stars, in galaxies, and in the universe. The results allow estimating the future prospects for life, from planetary to galactic and cosmological scales.Available energy, and microgravity, rad...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroecology

#Astroecology #Habitat #Astrobiology #EcologyTerminology #EnvironmentalTerminology

Forest Landscape Integrity Index (Biodiversity 🦗)

The Forest Landscape Integrity Index is an annual global index of forest condition measured by degree of anthropogenic modification. Created by a team of 48 scientists, the FLII, in its measurement of 300m pixels of forest across the globe, finds that ~17.4 million km...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Landscape_Integrity_Index

#ForestLandscapeIntegrityIndex #Biodiversity #ForestConservation #EnvironmentalIndices #EnvironmentalTerminology