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Ecosystem Diversity Information

Ecosystem diversity refers to the diversity of a place at the level of ecosystems. The term differs from biodiversity, which refers to variation in species rather than ecosystems. Ecosystem diversity can also refer to the variety of ecosystems present in a biosphere, the variety of species and ecological processes that occur in different physical settings.

Examples

Some examples of ecosystems that are rich in diversity are:

See also

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Modelling ecosystems - trophic components
General Abiotic component · Abiotic stress · Behaviour · Biogeochemical cycle · Biomass · Biotic component · Biotic stress · Carrying capacity · Competition · Ecosystem · Ecosystem ecology · Ecosystem model · Keystone species · List of feeding behaviours · Metabolic theory of ecology · Productivity
Producers Autotrophs · Chemosynthesis · Chemotrophs · Foundation species · Mixotrophs · Myco-heterotrophy · Mycotroph · Organotrophs · Photoheterotrophs · Photosynthesis · Photosynthetic efficiency · Phototrophs · Primary nutritional groups · Primary production
Consumers Apex predator · Bacterivore · Carnivores · Chemoorganotroph · Foraging · Generalist and specialist species · Herbivores · Heterotroph · Heterotrophic nutrition · Mesopredator release hypothesis · Omnivores · Optimal foraging theory · Predation
Decomposers Chemoorganoheterotrophy · Decomposition · Detritivores · Detritus
Microorganisms Bacteriophage · Lithoautotroph · Lithotrophy · Microbial food web · Microbial loop · Microbial metabolism · Phage ecology
Food webs Cold seeps · Hydrothermal vents · Intertidal · Kelp forests · Lakes · North Pacific Subtropical Gyre · Rivers · San Francisco Estuary · Soil · Tidal pool
Trophic effects Ascendency · Bioaccumulation · Biomagnification · Cascade effect · Competitive exclusion principle · Copiotrophs · Dominance · Ecological efficiency · Ecological network · Ecological pyramid · Ecological succession · Energy quality · Energy Systems Language · f-ratio · Feed conversion ratio · Feeding frenzy · Mesotrophic soil · Oligotroph · Paradox of the plankton · Trophic cascade · Trophic level · Trophic mutualism · Trophic state index
Defense/counter Antipredator adaptations · Herbivore adaptations to plant defense · Plant defense against herbivores · Predator avoidance in schooling fish
Modelling ecosystems - other components
Population ecology Abundance · Allee effect · Depensation · Ecological yield · Effective population size · Intraspecific competition · Logistic function · Malthusian growth model · Maximum sustainable yield · Overpopulation in wild animals · Overexploitation · Population cycle · Population dynamics · Population modeling · Population size · Predator–prey equations · Recruitment · Resilience · Small population size · Stability
Species Biodiversity · Density-dependent inhibition · Ecological effects of biodiversity · Ecological extinction · Endemic species · Flagship species · Gradient analysis · Indicator species · Introduced species · Invasive species · Latitudinal gradients in species diversity · Minimum viable population · Occupancy-abundance relationship · Population viability analysis · Rapoport's rule · Relative abundance distribution · Relative species abundance · Species diversity · Species homogeneity · Species richness · Species distribution · Species-area curve · Umbrella species
Species interaction Antibiosis · Biological interaction · Commensalism · Community ecology · Ecological facilitation · Interspecific competition · Mutualism
Spatial ecology Biogeography · Cross-boundary subsidy · Ecocline · Ecotone · Ecotype · Disturbance · Edge effect · Foster's rule · Habitat fragmentation · Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis · Island biogeography · Landscape ecology · Landscape epidemiology · Landscape limnology · Metapopulation · Patch dynamics · r/K selection theory · Source–sink dynamics
Niche Ecological niche · Ecological trap · Ecosystem engineer · Environmental niche modelling · Guild · Habitat · Limiting similarity · Niche apportionment models · Niche construction · Niche differentiation
Other networks Assembly rules · Bateman's principle · Bioluminescence · Ecological collapse · Ecological debt · Ecological deficit · Ecological energetics · Ecological indicator · Ecological threshold · Ecosystem diversity · Emergence · Kleiber's law · Liebig's law of the minimum · Marginal value theorem · Thorson's rule · Xerosere
Other Allometry · Alternative stable state · Balance of Nature · Biological data visualization · Constructal theory · Ecocline · Ecological economics · Ecological footprint · Ecological forecasting · Ecological humanities · Ecological stoichiometry · Ecopath · Ecosystem based fisheries · Endolith · Evolutionary ecology · Functional ecology · Industrial ecology · Macroecology · Microecosystem · Natural environment · Systems ecology · Theoretical ecology
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