• climate niche: microclimate / see also: refugia
• nutrient sensitive landscape
• flagship species / iconic animals / celebrity species article
• foundation species: forms base for ecosystem (grass)
• indicator species: bio indicator
• keystone species: high impact relative to its percentage of total biomass, often a predator (bird of prey)
• invasive species: disruptive newcomer

• eutrophication: nutrient stacking causing disruptive change to ecosystem (Baltic sea plankton bloom)
• genetic erosion: decline of genepool / number of organisms in the species involved in reproduction
• regime shifts > trophic cascade

• resilience
• tendency of a fully functional ecosystem to overcome elements of dysfunction. (There is also a tendency in dysfunctional ecosystems to refuse functional elements)
• phenotypic plasticity

• variation in the topology of the landscape
• amount of microclimates

• Biodiversity
• taxon richness: simply the amount of species found
• taxonomic diversity: do you have 4 types of chicken or do you have 1 type of chicken, cactus, toad and butterfly
• feature diversity: richness in functions and behaviours or just reindeer and moss
• allodiversity: amount of species introduced by man
• phenotipic diversity:
• endemism: amount of species with a small range / amount of specialists
• species distribution

• genotype: a genotype typically implies a measurement of how an individual differs or is specialized within a group
• gene expression

• climate_change
• assisted migration: see ecosystem restoration
• global tipping points: safe operating space for humanity
• refugia & sky island ecology

• dispersal scenarios
• dispersal jumps
• climate excursions
• hysteresis: system (critically) dependent also on previous historic states

• target ecosystem: chosen or preferred end state
• assisted migration: for species unable to migrate at the required speed needed for surviving climate change
• John D Liu, EEMPC: 1.5 billion hectares are suited to mosaic landscape restoration
• Allan Savory
• Biohabitats
• parataxonomy: field-trained biodiversity collection and inventory specialist recruited from local areas, see also: gurukula_botanical_sanctuary

• George Monbiot:
• Alan Watson Featherstone: Trees for Life
• Rewilding Europe
• Wild Europe
• Pan Parks

• study of animal behaviour
• ethogram: inventory of behaviours & actions of an organism

• Davis' law: soft tussue models along imposed demands
• trophotraxis: physical adation to food source
• phylogeny: evolution / hystory of a species

• forming of aminoacids
• comets: comet gasses + radiation = aminoacids > proteins
• ESA rosetta mission
• comet impact chemistry: university of Kent, Zita Martins
• panspermia

• REDD: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
• REDD+: inclusive of the rights of indigenous peoples
• law of ecocide
• Bonn Challenge: restore 150 million hectares of lost forests and degraded lands by 2020

• Ecosystem Marketplace
• Climate Exchange
• Species Banking
• Ecosystem Store
• green grabbing: eco-colonialism see: John Vidal

• Fluxnet: CO2 forest monitoring towers
• drone ecology
• ecohacking / sicizen science

reading:

• Adam Curtis the myth of a balance in nature and Arthur Tansley's dream leading him to develop the idea of ecosystems.