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| the study of how organisms interact with each other and their enviroment |
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| long-term weather conditions in a given place |
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| day to day climate changes |
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| the entire portion of Earth inhabited by life; sum of all the ecosystems |
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| - study of the functioning and distribution of organisms across the biosphere and how the regional exchange of energy and materials affects them |
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| area containing several different ecosystems linked by exchanges of energy, materials and organisms |
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| - study of how the spatial arrangement of habitat types affects the distribution and abundance or organisms and ecosystem processes |
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| the sum of the organisms living in an area that includes non-living factors in which how they interact with one or more communities and the physical environment around them |
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| - study of energy flow and the cycling of chemicals among various biotic and abiotic components in an ecosystem |
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| - : organisms that inhibit a particular area and assemble populations of different species that live close enough to be able to interact |
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| - study of how interactions between species affect community structure and function |
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| - individuals who are in a group that are in the same species that live in the same area and interbreed produce fertile offspring |
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| - study of populations in relation to their environment, including environmental influences on population density and distribution, age structure, & variations in pop. size |
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| - branch of ecology concerned with the morphological, physiological, & behavioral ways in which individual organisms meet the challenges posed by their biotic and abiotic enviroments |
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