III.15. Adaptation to the Biotic Environment

2013 ◽  
pp. 298-304
Keyword(s):  
Biotic Environment

From the Formation of the Earth to the Establishment of Luka

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 497-520
Author(s):  
Zdravka Kostova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Prokaryotic Cell ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Evolution Of Life ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Organic Precursors ◽  
Biotic Environment

The article discusses successive stages in the evolution of life up to the establishment of the prokaryotic cell emphasizing the transitions from pre-biotic environment to organic precursors, pre-RNA-RNA, RNA-proteins-DNA, DNA-LUCA. They are paired with the development of pre-biotic structural progenitors of a cell - micelles, vesicles, protocells, prokaryotic ancestor, two prokaryotic branches – Eubacteria and Archaebacteria. The driving force is the natural selection (chemical, biochemical and biological), maintaining the correspondence between the emerging structures and their environment.

scholarly journals The Natural Biotic Environment ofCaenorhabditis elegans

Genetics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 206 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hinrich Schulenburg ◽  
Marie-Anne Félix
Keyword(s):  
Biotic Environment

The Biotic Environment

2017 ◽  
pp. 187-212
Author(s):  
Jenny S. Cory ◽  
Pauline S. Deschodt
Keyword(s):  
Biotic Environment

scholarly journals A promising future for integrative biodiversity research: an increased role of scale-dependency and functional biology

2016 ◽  
Vol 371 (1691) ◽  
pp. 20150228 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Price ◽  
L. Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Scaling Effects ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Biodiversity Crisis ◽  
Biodiversity Research ◽  
Ecological Mechanisms ◽  
Functional Biology ◽  
Biotic Environment

Studies into the complex interaction between an organism and changes to its biotic and abiotic environment are fundamental to understanding what regulates biodiversity. These investigations occur at many phylogenetic, temporal and spatial scales and within a variety of biological and geological disciplines but often in relative isolation. This issue focuses on what can be achieved when ecological mechanisms are integrated into analyses of deep-time biodiversity patterns through the union of fossil and extant data and methods. We expand upon this perspective to argue that, given its direct relevance to the current biodiversity crisis, greater integration is needed across biodiversity research. We focus on the need to understand scaling effects, how lower-level ecological and evolutionary processes scale up and vice versa, and the importance of incorporating functional biology. Placing function at the core of biodiversity research is fundamental, as it establishes how an organism interacts with its abiotic and biotic environment and it is functional diversity that ultimately determines important ecosystem processes. To achieve full integration, concerted and ongoing efforts are needed to build a united and interactive community of biodiversity researchers, with education and interdisciplinary training at its heart.

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