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Topic: Biological Community

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	Biological Community Samples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Biological community samples (fish, benthic invertebrates, algae) are collected in streams and rivers as part of ecological studies in the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program.
		Biological community samples are collected within a defined length of stream, or "reach", at sites investigated for NAWQA ecological studies.
		Fish Community Sample Count - returns the number of fish community samples collected at each station and sampling reach that is located within the geographic area specified by the sample selection criteria.
	infotrek.er.usgs.gov /docs/nawqa_www/BiologicalCommunitySamples.htm (827 words)

	EPA Biological Criteria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Biological integrity and the determination of use impairment through assessment of ambient biological communities form the foundation for biological criteria development.
		Biological criteria are based on the premise that the structure and function of an aquatic biological community within a specific habitat provide critical information about the quality of surface waters.
		Since biological surveys used for biological criteria are capable of detecting water quality problems (use impairments) that may not be detected by chemical or toxicity testing, violation of biological criteria is sufficient cause for States to initiate regulatory action.
	www.epa.gov /bioindicators/html/biol3.html (3095 words)

	Ch06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Whereas an ecosystem is composed of all the living and non-living components of the environment in a given area, an ecological community is composed of all the living species (or populations) in a given area that interact with one another.
		Communities may be defined in such a way by ecologists that only a portion of the ecological community is examined (i.e., the bird community, the fish community, the plant community, etc.), but as with an ecosystem, the geographic area of the community must also be established.
		Ecologists measure ecosystem and community structure using mathematical indices that depend greatly on the number of species present in the community, their interaction strengths in the food web, the interspecific interactions and the amount of abiotic resources present in the ecosystem.
	drjoe.biology.ecu.edu /ch06/ch06.htm (3958 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition (1999)
		Biological integrity was considered relative to conditions that existed prior to European settlement; the protection and propagation of balanced, indigenous populations; and ecosystems that are unperturbed by human activities.
		Biological criteria seem particularly well suited to address these concerns because the underlying science and theory is robust (Karr, 1991), and biocriteria directly assess the biological condition of aquatic habitats.
		Biological criteria are an emerging and increasingly important issue for the EPA, the states, and the regulated community, and their use is growing nationwide.
	books.nap.edu /books/0309054419/html/227.html (7294 words)

	Bangladesh -- Biodiversity and Community Knowledge Protection Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Biodiversity and Community Knowledge Protection Act recognizes and reaffirms that the people of Bangladesh are constituted into diverse communities and localities, diverse life styles and cultures in various ecosystems in accordance with the fundamental premise of biodiversity and genetic resources and the knowledge, intellectual practice and culture related to them.
		The biological and genetic resources and the intellectual and cultural knowledge and practices as well as any innovations arising from these shall not be sold, assigned transferred or dealt in any manner without explicit Prior Informed Consent and effective participation of the Communities concerned.
		All biological and genetic resources in their diverse manifestations or expressions and the intellectual and cultural knowledge and practices shall be registered, documented and permanently kept in Community Biological Diversity Registers.
	www.elaw.org /resources/text.asp?id=2524 (9456 words)

	IS DEPRESSION SITUATIONAL OR BIOLOGICAL? :: Community for Health Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I think most of these people would consider a "biological Depression" one in which there is no identifiable precipitating event, or perhaps one which requires treatment with medication.
		And so does whether the person is treated by psychological and biological means or just psychological means, or whether he is treated at all.
		So what makes a depression biological, in my usage, is whether there is a neurological imbalance that may or may not be successfully treated with medication.
	communityforhealth.com /viewtopic.php?t=1428 (3290 words)

	Organization of African Unity
		The task force understands a local community as a section of society in a given area whose means of livelihood are based on the natural resources, knowledge and technologies of and related to its immediate ecosystems.
		Any claims upon biological and genetic resources obtained or used in violation of the provisions of this legislation or mutually agreed terms and conditions shall not be recognized and the certificate of intellectual property or similar certificates and licences upon such resources or products and processes resulting from access shall not be considered valid.
		The local communities shall at all times and in perpetuity be the lawful and sole custodians of the relevant knowledge, innovations and practices.
	www.lclark.edu /org/ielp/oau.html (2826 words)

	Mount Desert Island Biological Lab - Community Outreach and Education Program (COEP)
		Community Outreach, encompassing a weekly visitors' program supported by the Center, and hosting school groups to engage students in the work of the Center and environmental health in general.
		Community Environmental Health Laboratory (CEHL), a collaborative project of the Center and the Mount Desert Island Water Quality Coalition (MDIWQC), a local grassroots community organization conducting environmental monitoring in freshwater and marine environments on Mount Desert Island.
		Community Environmental Health Laboratory (CEHL): CEHL is a collaborative effort of the Center and the Mount Desert Island Water Quality Coalition (MDIWQC).
	www-apps.niehs.nih.gov /centers/public/coep/ctr-760.htm (1700 words)

	community -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		For example, a forest of trees and undergrowth plants, inhabited by animals and rooted in soil containing bacteria and fungi, constitutes a biological community.
		By the 1980s, many members of the scientific community believed that advances in health care had nearly eliminated the threat that plagues, which had ravaged populations in the past, would ever be seen again.
		Includes a facility for community groups to create their own website, a UK search engine, and news about such topics as ethnic minorities, community development, housing and homelessness, and government funding of public projects.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9024992 (884 words)

	Glossary
		Every community of living things depends upon its producers to convert inorganic carbon (from the carbon dioxide in the air) into organic molecules (such as sugar) through the process of photosynthesis.
		A food web illustrates how each type of organism in a community is typically consumed by or consumes more than one other type of organism, and that different types of organisms compete for the same food sources.
		- animal in a biological community which is not usually caught and eaten by other animals in that community.
	naturalsciences.sdsu.edu /classes/lab2.3/glossary.html (773 words)

	Relative Abundance And Biological Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Species diversity is determined not only by the number of species within a biological community, but also by the relative abundance of individuals in that community.
		A region that does not have a wide variety of habitats usually doesn’t have a lot of species.
		Biological Community - The plant and animal life of a specific area or region.
	tlcf.osn.state.oh.us /troy/sld002.htm (72 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is not a designation or classification; it is based on the current condition of the surface water and the biological community living in that surface water.
		COLD Cold Water Community; includes surface waters that are capable of supporting a community of cold water fish and other aquatic life or that serve as a spawning area for cold water fish species.
		Partially Supporting "Part" A stream or stream segment's existing biological use is the same as its potential biological use, except that implementation of management practices could enhance the overall ecological health of the biological community.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/gmu/howto_streams.doc (1176 words)

	Goldburg: Public Support for BioControl
		In the conservation community, where the focus was previously on habitat preservation, there now is a realization that we must also, secondarily, prevent introduction of harmful species.
		The risks and negative effects of biological control agents are now the focus of a number of papers in the entomological literature.
		To conclude, the environmental community generally strongly supports biological control but is increasingly aware of various risks of biocontrol products and is skeptical that new biotechnology products will be as safe as traditional products.
	www.nysaes.cornell.edu /ent/bcconf/talks/goldburg.html (3443 words)

	Stasis, biological disturbance, and community structure of a Holocene coral reef -- Aronson and Precht 23 (3): 326 -- ...
		One interpretation of these observations is that coral species persisted on Caribbean reefs for hundreds of thousands of years as components of tightly integrated communities, and that a rare or unique combination of disturbances led to the synchronous decline of A. cervicornis and other corals throughout the region.
		The hypotheses of (1) community integration and (2) a unique, recent community transition, were tested by ecological and paleoecological observations in the shelf lagoon of the Belizean Barrier Reef.
		The community transition also underscores the potential for biological factors in general, and disease in particular, to alter the composition of ecological communities and their sedimentary remains.
	paleobiol.geoscienceworld.org /cgi/content/abstract/23/3/326 (786 words)

	Biological Communities: Pelagic, from Discovery of Estuarine Environments (DOEE)
		Estuaries are commonly nicknamed the "nurseries of the sea." The pelagic community is a large contributor to this nickname.
		The pelagic community also serves as a source of energy and food for the benthic community.
		The benthic community relies on the bodies of animals that have died and particles of food that flow downward.
	omp.gso.uri.edu /doee/science/biology/pelag3.htm (267 words)

	Biological response to frontal dynamics and mesoscale variability in oligotrophic environments: Biological production ...
		Most of the biological production takes place near the surface on the cyclonic (northern) side of the front and on the upstream region of meander crests in response to nutrient upwelling.
		However, strong advection downstream and downward in the convergence regions (downstream side of meander crests) results in accumulation of biomass at depth on the anticyclonic (southern) side of the front, leading to spatial separation between regions of biological growth and regions of biomass accumulation.
		In the multispecies formulation the mesoscale dynamics drives a sustained shift in the phytoplankton community toward the large size classes that is consistent with observations and that has not been observed in previous similar process-modeling studies.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2002/2000JC000393.shtml (444 words)

	The Human Individual and Community in the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources TEWOLDE BERHAN GEBRE ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The opposite view is that it is indigenous and local communities that have been effectively using biological resources throughout the human past and thus, where they have been weakened, it is empowering them that will enable us to conserve and sustainable use natural resources.
		The physical methods developed by farming communities either reduce or prevent soil erosion, reduce loss of water from the soil, drain the soil to reduce excess soil water, or bring water for irrigation.
		Thus marginalized, these farming communities lose confidence in their customarily acquired systems of effective conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and become dependent on the vulnerable monocultures of the private breeders.
	www.mindfully.org /Sustainability/Human-Individual-Community-Egziabher14mar02.htm (9892 words)

	Biology Lesson 2.3
		A biological community consists of groups of organisms of two or more different types living together within the same geographical area where they are likely to interact with each other.
		The opossum eats fruit, seeds and nuts (and thus is a primary consumer), insects and birds (and thus is a predator), and it is eaten by larger animals (and thus serves as prey).
		Biomass is the total dry weight of all the organisms present at a particular trophic level in a biological community.
	naturalsciences.sdsu.edu /classes/lab2.3/lab2.3.html (2503 words)

	BLM NSTC Soil Biological Communities - Food Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		First of all, think of all the organisms that are a part of the soil biological community: bacteria, algae, cyanobacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, and arthropods.
		Plants, larger animals (such as ground squirrels, badgers, and jackrabbits), and many other organisms are also part of this biological community.
		It means that the soil biological community improves the condition of the soil.
	www.blm.gov /nstc/soil/foodweb (551 words)

	IUGG 2003 Scientific Program
		Cold seepages with biological communities were discovered along a seafloor outcrop of one of the splay faults through submersible observations [Ashi et al., 2002].
		At one of the biological community sites, a gamma ray intensity anomaly mainly due to U-series radionucleides was detected, suggesting microcrack development under shear stress and resultant release of Rn-222 [Hattori and Okano, 2002].
		In order to estimate heat and fluid fluxes along the splay fault, a long-term temperature monitoring system was deployed at the biological community site where the gamma ray intensity anomaly was observed and bottom-water and sub-bottom temperatures were measured for one year.
	www.cig.ensmp.fr /~iahs/sapporo/abs/jws04/018406-2.html (459 words)

	Community Forum - Biological Injection?
		I read that there is a new approved biological injection, that is working on psorisis and is in short supply (it is fda approved) Does anyone have any info on this?
		Enbrel was already approved by the FDA in late 1998 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, and had since been approved for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis as well.
		It is one of a new class of medications called biologic response modifiers.
	www.psoriasis.org /forum/printthread.php?t=2820 (556 words)

	BioMed Central \| for libraries \| Subscription products
		The aim is to serve as a focus for communication about all aspects of arthritis, auto-immune rheumatic diseases and skeletal disorders.
		Serving the biological community, this journal is an international forum for the dissemination, discussion and critical review of information about all areas of biology informed by genomic research.
		Protein Structure and Function is an introduction for postgenomic biologists to the structural basis for the biological activities of proteins, with special emphasis on the interpretation of gene sequence in terms of protein function.
	www.biomedcentral.com /info/libraries/product_info (708 words)

	Biological Community Samples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Biological community samples (fish, invertebrates, algae) are collected in streams and rivers as part of ecological studies in the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program.
		During the program's first decade of operation (1991 - 2001), ecological studies were conducted to assess the occurrence and distribution of algal, invertebrate, and fish communities in about 59 study units (
		Glossary of Terms and Variables for Biological Community Data
	infotrek.er.usgs.gov /doc/nawqa_www/bio/bio_communitysamples.htm (142 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions
		This was truly amazing, given that at its outset, a large section of the biological community deemed it altogether impossible, let alone feasible for the projected budget and target date.
		A paradigm shift within the taxonomic community is needed in order to achieve the 25-year mission to discover, describe, and disseminate the entire encyclopedia of life.
		This is no small feat among a community who is accustomed to working as individuals and is understandably often quite competitive for the limited funds available for their work.
	www.all-species.org /faq_response.html (3958 words)

	Microbial community changes in biological phosphate-removal systems on altering sludge phosphorus content -- Liu et al. ...
		Bond, P., Hugenholtz, P., Keller, J. and Blackall, L. Bacterial community structures of phosphate-removing and non-phosphate-removing activated sludge from sequencing batch reactors.
		Hiraishi, A., Ueda, Y. and Ishihara, J. Quinone profiling of bacterial communities in natural and synthetic sewage activated sludge for enhanced phosphate removal.
		Rajendran, N., Matsuda, O., Imamura, N. and Urushigawa, Y. Variation in microbial biomass and community structure in sediments of eutrophic bays as determined by phospholipid ester-linked fatty acids.
	mic.sgmjournals.org /cgi/content/full/146/5/1099 (4517 words)

	Wildland Fire: Activity \| What's a Community? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Students describe what they know about human communities and use this knowledge to explore the concept of a biological community.
		A biological community consists of all the organisms in a particular area that are bound together by food webs and other relationships.
		After the discussion, students decorate the classroom to depict three different forest communities (dominated by ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, and whitebark pine) and some of their inhabitants.
	www.nifc.gov /preved/comm_guide/wildfire/fire_22i.html (851 words)

	Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - MJ's "Biological" Children?
		I have a niece who is blond caucasian and her daughter is half afro american her daughter (my great-niece) basically looks all afro-american, brown skin, brown eyes, and dark curly hair.
		However, she still is their biological mother and as such, if their father (who has sole custody) is unable to take care of the children (because he's in prison or is deemed unfit by a court), Debbie has a pretty good chance of convincing a judge that she should be awarded custody.
		If not, maybe she knows who the biological father is. Although its always been my understanding that the mother needs to be Jewish in order for the child to be considered Jewish, so she may well be.
	www.websleuths.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4232 (3630 words)

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