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functional ecologyfunktionelle Ökologie (ger.)

  • Ecology that abstracts from the evolutionary relationships between organisms and focuses on their role for the maintenance of ecological systems.  
    ecology evolutionary ecology
    1949
    All functional ecology is closely related, directly or indirectly, to the capture of radiant energy that originates in the sun
    Allee, W.C., Emerson, A.E., Park, O., Park, T. & Schmidt, K.P. (1949). Principles of Animal Ecology: 87; Odum, E.P. (1958). Ecology course at Woods Hole. AIBS Bulletin 8, 36.
    1958

    all three “kingdoms” [viz. plants, animals and microorganisms] are always intimately associated functionally in ecological systems according to welldefined principles. Thus, the only kind of general ecology is a “functional” ecology

    Odum, E.P. (1958). Ecology course at Woods Hole. AIBS Bulletin 8, 36.