Evolutionary ecology

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theory in evolutionary biology

study of how interactions among species and between species and their environment affect species through selection and adaptation

plant life-form

analytical framework designed to study the diversity of life history strategies used by different organisms throughout the world, as well as the causes and results of the variation in their life cycles

eusocial hymnopteran behavior where worker females eat or destroy eggs laid by other workers