Abstract
Ecology deals with the interactions between organisms and their biotic and abiotic environment, thus embracing all areas of integration from single-cell organisms to the biosphere. Therefore, the areas of research and of the various disciplines within ecology differ widely in methods and concepts (see Sect. 11.6).
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Körner, C. (2013). Basics of Plant Ecology. In: Strasburger's Plant Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15518-5_11
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