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| one that employs concepts and techniques from numerous disciplines and brings research results from these disciplines together into a broad synthesis |
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| Sustainability Development |
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| Use of resource to satisfy current needs without compromising future availability |
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| traits that enhance survival and reproduction continue in population |
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| a trait that promotes reproductive sucess |
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| An error in the DNA that may surpass in the offsprings |
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| Drives a feature in one direction |
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| Extremes are selected against |
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| trait diverge in two or more directions |
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| conducted under human direction |
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| a burst of species diversification that occurs in response to environment change |
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| members can produce fertile offspring |
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| a group of individuals of a species that live in the same area |
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| species formation due to physical separation |
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| populations becomes reproductively isolated within the same area |
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| species with a small geographic distribution |
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| quantitative dynamics of populations |
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| Interactions among species |
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| the environment in which an organism lives |
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| an organism's use of resources and its functional role in a community |
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| optimal niche --> unlimited resources |
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| a subset of fundamental niche due to species interactions--> more competition |
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| the number of individuals within a population |
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| Biosphere, Atmosphere, Geosphere and Hydrophere |
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| neither nor energy can be exchanged across the boundaries |
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| energy can be exchanged across the boundaries, but matter cannot |
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| Both matter and energy can be exchanged |
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| system process balancing, constantly changing and interactions |
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| system tends to maintain stable internal conditions |
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| system characteristics not evident in components on their own |
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| a system of two or more connected reservoirs that transfers matter and energy |
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| alternation the crops grown field from one season or year to the next |
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| plowing furrows sideways across a hillside |
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| level platforms are cut into steep hillside, forming "staircase" to contain water |
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| large expanse of a single crop |
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| an organisim that contains DNA from another species. And the genes that have been moved between them. |
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