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| 282903867 | abiotic reservoir | The part of an ecosystem where a chemical accumulates or is stockpiled outside of living organisms | |
| 282903868 | batesian mimicry | A type of mimicry in which a harmless species looks like a species that is poisonous or harmful to predators. | |
| 282903869 | biodiversity | All of the variety of life; usually refers to the variety of species that make up a community | |
| 282903870 | biomass | The dry weight of organic matter comprising a group of organisms in a particular habitat | |
| 282903871 | coevolution | The mutual influence on the evolution of two different species interacting with each other | |
| 282903872 | commensalism | A symbiotic relationship in which the symbiont benefits but the host is neither helped nor harmed. | |
| 282903873 | community | An assemblage of populations of different species living close enough together for potential interaction. | |
| 282903874 | competitive exclusion | The concept that when populations of two similar species compete for the same limited resources | |
| 282903875 | decomposition | The breakdown of organic materials into inorganic ones. | |
| 282903876 | detritivore | A consumer that derives its energy from nonliving organic material. | |
| 282903877 | detritus | Dead organic matter. | |
| 282903878 | disturbance | A force that changes a biological community and usually removes organisms from it | |
| 282903879 | ecological succession | Transition in the species composition of a biological community, often following ecological disturbance | |
| 282903880 | food chain | The pathway along which food is transferred from trophic level to trophic level, beginning with producers. | |
| 282903881 | food web | The elaborate, interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem | |
| 282903882 | interspecific competition | Competition for resources between plants or between animals when resources are in short supply. | |
| 282903883 | keystone species | Species that are not usually abundant yet exert strong control on community structure. | |
| 282903884 | müllerian mimicry | A mutual mimicry by two unpalatable species. | |
| 282903885 | mutualism | A symbiotic relationship in which both participants benefit. | |
| 282903886 | parasitism | A symbiotic relationship in which the symbiont benefits at the expense of the host | |
| 282903887 | predation | An interaction between species in which one species, eats the other, the prey | |
| 282903888 | primary consumer | An herbivore; an organism in the trophic level of an ecosystem that eats plants or algae. | |
| 282903889 | primary production | The amount of light energy converted to chemical energy by autotrophs in an ecosystem during a time period. | |
| 282903890 | primary succession | A type of ecological succession that occurs where soil has not yet formed. | |
| 282903891 | producers | Organisms that make organic food molecules from inorganic raw materials | |
| 282903892 | quarternary consumer | An organism that eats tertiary consumers. | |
| 282903893 | resource partitioning | The division of environmental resources by coexisting species | |
| 282903894 | secondary consumer | A member of the trophic level of an ecosystem consisting of carnivores that eat herbivores | |
| 282903895 | secondary succession | A type of succession that occurs where an existing community has been cleared by some disturbance | |
| 282903896 | tertiary consumer | A member of a trophic level of an ecosystem consisting of carnivores that eat mainly other carnivores. | |
| 282903897 | trophic structure | The different feeding relationships in an ecosystem, which determine energy flow and chemical cycling. |
