Article: Warming, Johannes
Plant Sciences;      700+ words ......botanist who is regarded as the founder of plant ecology. The term ecology had been used before...that must be addressed in a study of plant ecology and the first to popularize detailed...At that time, before the study of plant ecology as Warming later introduced it, plant...

Article: nodum
A Dictionary of Ecology;      31 words ...nodum In plant ecology, a characteristic vegetation unit. The term was first applied by M. E. D. Poore (1956) to similar sites grouped together, using modified, traditional, phytosociological techniques.

Article: ecology
A Dictionary of Biology;      103 words ......of the interrelationships between organisms and their natural environment, both living and nonliving. For this purpose, ecologists study organisms in the context of the populations and communities in which they can be grouped and the ecosystems of which they...

Article: inverse analysis
A Dictionary of Ecology;      151 words ......individuals that possess or lack those attributes (e.g. in plant ecology the grouping of species according to their presence, absence...plot (individual) or species (attribute) ordinations. In plant ecology especially, inverse classifications are often used to complement...

Article: du Rietz, GustafEinar
A Dictionary of Ecology;      40 words ...du Rietz, GustafEinar (1895–1967)A Swedish ecologist, who, in 1934, became professor of plant ecology at the University of Uppsala. He contributed to several branches of biogeography and was a leading figure in the Uppsala school of phytosociology .

Article: Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      54 words ..., 1841-1924, Danish botanist, a founder of the science of plant ecology. He was a professor at the Univ. of Copenhagen (1885-1911) and wrote a pioneer work in his field, Plantesamfund (1895), which...

Article: underdispersion
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences;      39 words ...underdispersion ( regular distribution ) In plant ecology, the situation in which the pattern of individuals of a given plant species within a community is not random, but regular, with similar numbers recorded in all quadrats . See PATTERN ANALYSIS .

Article: du Rietz, Gustaf Einar
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences;      40 words ...du Rietz, Gustaf Einar (1895–1967) A Swedish ecologist who, in 1934, became professor of plant ecology at the University of Uppsala. He contributed to several branches of biogeography and was a leading figure in the Uppsala school of phytosociology .

Article: Ecologist
Animal Sciences;      331 words ......by ecologists illustrates their belief that all life on Earth is connected in a delicate and barely understood balance. Ecologists study the web of relationships between the plants, animals, microorganisms, climate, and geography of a given habitat. The term...

Article: Functional plant ecology, 2d ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  December 1, 2007 ;     161 words ...9780849374883 Functional plant ecology, 2d ed. Ed. by Francisco Pugnaire and Fernando Valladares. CRC / Taylor & Francis 2007 724 pages $159.95 Hardcover Books in...

Article: overdispersion
A Dictionary of Ecology;      47 words ...overdispersion( contagious distribution ) In plant ecology, a situation in which the pattern formed by the distribution of individuals of a given plant species within a community is not...

Article: Field Studies in Plant Ecology
Biology;      546 words ...Field Studies in Plant Ecology Some of the most important ecological...place today is in field studies in plant ecology. These are studies undertaken...ecological questions. Field studies in plant ecology serve two major purposes. First...

Article: Ecology
Animal Sciences;      700+ words ......essentially problems of ecology. Ecologists study organisms in various kinds...chemistry, and mathematics. Plant ecology centers on a descriptive...animals and their environment. Plant ecology can often focus on just...animal ecology must include plant ecology. This is ...

Article: Forensic Botany
Plant Sciences;      608 words ......systematics, focusing on plant relationships to other plants; plant ecology, which deals with plants and their environments; and palynology...drug plants that are illegal in this country, such as coca. Plant ecology has been found useful in the location of the graves of missing...