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| morphological and physiological differentiation amoung species |
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how "equal" members of the community are
(ex: how evenly abundance varies among taxa) |
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| number of taza (species, genera, families, etc.) |
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| AET // actual evapotranspiration |
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combined effects of temperature and precipitation
greater than "theoretical" evapotranspiration |
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| a group of ecosystems sharing similar types of plants under a similar climatic regime |
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related to...
latitude and elevation
temperature, precipitation, and seasonality |
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| a set of components that function together to act as a whole |
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| a system in which neither E nor materials flows in or out |
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| the degree to which a system’s design is difficult to understand (or model) with components that are so interconnected, as to make the function of the whole system confusing. There are many simple interacting parts collectively produce unexpected behaviour |
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