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— A FIELD GUIDE, PLATE I — ECOLOGY Webs of Dependence Thirteen Plates · on Living Systems Plate II Levels of Organization from a single being to the living Earth organism A single living individual — one oak, one robin, one hyphal strand of fungus. population All members of one species inhabiting a defined place at a defined time. community All populations interacting in the same locality — predators, prey... Key sections include: ECOLOGY; Webs of Dependence; Levels of Organization from a single being to the living Earth; Major Biomes of the Earth climate paints the world in distinct hands; Energy & the Ten-Percent Rule each step up the pyramid loses ninety; Nutrient Cycles matter is borrowed, not consumed; Predator & Prey Lotka & Volterra: a dance in two voices; Niches & Competition Gause's principle of exclusion; Keystone Species remove the stone, the arch falls; Biodiversity Hotspots much, in very little.
