Preferred term
biological process
Definition
- [GEMET] Processes concerning living organisms
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- above-ground net primary production
- aboveground production
- adaptation
- adaptive evolution
- amphibian decline
- animal behaviour
- animal communication
- animal movement
- anthropogenic climate change
- asexual reproduction
- assimilation
- assortative mating
- bacterial community composition
- bacterial growth
- bacterial infection
- bacterial production
- biogenic emission
- biological invasion
- biomass growth
- biomass production
- biotic homogenization
- biotic interaction
- bird migration
- brain evolution
- breeding
- brood parasitism
- browsing
- carbon dioxide flux
- carbon dioxide respiration
- carbon dioxide surface flux
- carbon emission
- carbon flux
- cattle grazing
- cell proliferation
- chemical defense
- clonal growth
- clonal propagation
- clonal reproduction
- clonal selection
- coevolution
- colonization
- community change
- community development
- compensatory growth
- competition
- competitive exclusion
- convergent evolution
- coral bleaching
- decay rate
- decomposition
- degradation
- density dependence
- detritus cycle
- diapause
- diet
- diet selection
- disease
- dispersal
- dispersal limitation
- disturbance (process)
- divergent selection
- DNA fragmentation
- dry matter production
- ecosystem process
- ecosystem respiration
- ecosystem restoration
- environmental degradation
- environmental pollution
- environmental stress
- evolution
- extinction
- foraging behavior
- forest disturbance
- forest growth
- forest regeneration
- forest restoration
- forest succession
- gene flow
- germination
- grazing
- gross primary production
- growth
- habitat change
- habitat selection
- harvested aboveground production
- harvesting
- herbivory
- host-parasite coevolution
- host-parasite interaction
- human disturbance
- incubation
- insect herbivory
- interspecific competition
- intraguild predation
- intraspecific competition
- land use change
- larval development
- leaf growth
- leaf litter production
- leaf senescence
- life cycle
- life history evolution
- litterfall
- livestock grazing
- local adaptation
- long distance dispersal
- mass extinction
- mate choice
- maternal effect
- metabolism
- methane flux
- microbial activity
- microbial growth
- mutation
- natural selection
- nest predation
- net community production
- net ecosystem exchange
- net ecosystem production
- net photosynthesis
- net primary production
- niche differentiation
- niche partitioning
- nitrogen use efficiency
- not harvested aboveground production
- nutrient dynamics
- oxidative dna damage
- oxidative metabolism
- oxygen uptake
- parasitism
- phenological cycle
- photosynthesis
- physiological process
- plant competition
- plant defense
- plant disease
- plant evolution
- plant growth
- plant interaction
- plant invasion
- plant production
- plant reproduction
- plant succession
- plant-animal interaction
- plant-herbivore interaction
- pollen dispersal
- population cycles
- population decline
- predation
- predator-prey interaction
- prey capture
- prey selection
- primary production
- primary productivity of ecosystem
- primary succession
- production
- productivity
- range expansion
- range shift
- recovery
- recruitment
- regeneration
- regime change
- regime shift
- reproduction
- respiration
- restoration
- revegetation
- root respiration
- sap flow
- seagrass leaf elongation
- seagrass leaf production
- seasonal cycle
- seasonal dynamics
- secondary succession
- seed dispersal
- seed germination
- seed predation
- seedling recruitment
- sexual selection
- soil degradation
- spatial dynamics
- speciation
- species area relationship
- species interactions
- species invasion
- species loss
- species-area curve
- succession
- survival
- symbiotic fixation
- sympatric speciation
- temporal change
- temporal dynamics
- translocation
- transpiration
- tree growth
- tropical deforestation
- vegetation change
- vegetative growth
- wind dispersal
- wind pollination
- yield
Scope note
- US LTER controlled vocabulary
Creator
- herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at
URI
http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20982