Ecological dominance is the degree to which one or several species have a major influence controlling the other species in their ecological community (because of their large size, population, productivity, or related factors) or make up more of the biomass . Both the composition and abundance of species within an ecosystem can be affected by the dominant species present.
4-405: Dominant species may mean: Dominant species (ecology) , one of a small number of species which dominate in an ecological community Dominant Species (novel) by Michael E. Marks Dominant Species (board game) Dominant Species (video game) Dominant Species (album) , an album by New Zealand singer King Kapisi Topics referred to by
8-652: A single species accounting for most of the biomass, species diversity was often lower. Understandably, biologists expect to see more profound effects from those species greater in number. First formalized as the mass ratio hypothesis in a 1998 paper by English ecologist J. Philip Grime , ecologically dominant species are predicted to have overwhelming effects on ecosystem function and ecological processes due to their relatively high biomass and ubiquity. Most ecological communities are defined by their dominant species. There are currently several different metrics for assessing species dominance in natural ecosystems, including
12-515: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dominant species (ecology) In most of the world's ecosystems, biologists have repeatedly observed a rank-abundance curve in which ecosystems comprise a handful of incredibly abundant species, but more numerous, rarer species that are few in number. Danish botanist Christen C. Raunkiær described this phenomenon as his " law of frequency " in 1918, in which he recognized that in communities with
16-429: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dominant Species . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dominant_Species&oldid=1052598771 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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