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Biogeography
The study of geographic distribution of living organisms.
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density-independent
Biology; Biogeography
Having influence on individuals in a population in a manner that does not vary with the degree of crowding in the population.
density-dependent
Biology; Biogeography
Having influence on individuals in a population in a manner that varies with the degree of crowding in the population.
neighborhood effect
Biology; Biogeography
Increased impact of landscape features located in the immediate neighborhood of a focal patch compared with features farther from the local patch.
landscape indexes
Biology; Biogeography
Indexes of landscape structure (pattern), including richness, evenness, patchiness, diversity, dominance, contagion, edges, fractal dimension, nearest neighbor probability, and the size and ...
