When applied to ecology (as semiotic ecology, or biosemiotics), it means (1) the theory of ecological processes that is based on semiosis and communication processes as the ones that organize the ecological systems, that are responsible for their structural diversity and autonomous dynamics; and (2) the methodology of research that is applying qualitative methods in biology.
Predator prey dynamics encompass an intriguing body of ecological processes that is embedded in all biological communities because virtually every organism is predator, prey, or both.
Knowledge of why people volunteer to restore and conserve urban ecosystems can help practitioners enhance volunteering as a social-ecological process that is mutually beneficial to landscapes and people.
The coarse filter is usually considered to function at broad spatial scales and to reflect underlying ecological processes that are operative over long temporal scales.
This approach has the potential to improve model predictions and better inform us about ecological processes that are influenced by multiple edge effects at patch and landscape scales.
We demonstrate, using example landscapes of different topographical complexity, how species' thermal niches could be distributed across these landscapes, and how these, in turn, may affect many population and community ecological processes that are related to adaptation or dispersal.
Current distribution and density of AMF are the result of contemporary ecological processes that are under control of several factors such as altitude, soil chemical properties, soil disturbance, and above-ground vegetation (Sturmer and Siqueira 2011; Yang et al. 2010; Shukla et al. 2009).
Among the ecological processes that were measured at the German BIODEPTH site we selected those that were relatively independent (mean correlation over all selected processes was 0.5) since two highly correlated processes would be trivially ruled by the same biodiversity components.
Understanding sex determination in wild plants is particularly valuable because it is in these species that data can be linked to ecological processes that are prevailing drivers of sexual system variation (Frank 1989; Jacobs and Wade 2003).
Given that the ramifications of meiotic drive can range from intragenomic conflict to species-level extinction (Jaenike, 2001), there is a great need to study the selective and ecological processes that are involved in the evolution and maintenance of meiotic drive in wild populations.
