Concepts
6 concepts
phenomenon
Species-area relationship
The positive relationship between species richness and the surveyed area, described by the power-law S=cA^z where c is the intercept and z measures the rate of community turnover
measurement
community composition
The identity and relative abundance of species within an ecological community
phenomenon
spatial clustering
Alpine plants growing in clumps with multiple species interacting in close proximity, affecting microhabitats and species interactions
process
herbivore preference
Selective feeding behavior of herbivores that favors certain plant traits or genotypes over others
process
facilitation
model type
Constant Connectance in Space model
Model developed to determine LARs based on SAR and simple properties of food webs including species richness, number of links and connectance