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nestednessnoun
A measure of the order in an ecological system
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Nestedness
Nestedness is a measure of structure in an ecological system, usually applied to species-sites systems (describing the distribution of species across locations), or species-species interaction networks (describing the interactions between species, usually as bipartite networks such as hosts-parasites, plants-pollinators, etc.). A system (usually represented as a matrix) is said to be nested when the elements that have a few items in them (locations with few species, species with few interactions) have a subset of the items of elements with more items. Imagine a series of islands that are ordered by their distance from the mainland. If the mainland has all species, the first island has a subset of mainland's species, the second island has a subset of the first island's species, and so forth, then this system is perfectly nested.
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Nestedness
Nestedness is a measure of order in an ecological system, referring to the order in which the number of species is related to area or other factors. The more a system is "nested" the more it is organized. Imagine island communities at different distances from the mainland. Then we would expect islands farther away to contain fewer species, and these species to be present on all islands that are closer to the mainland. In this case, the species-island-matrix would be highly nested. If, on the other hand, all species have the same dispersal ability, population size etc. on the mainland, then island communities might simply be random draws from the mainland pool, and the species-island-matrix would not display any significant nestedness.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of nestedness in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of nestedness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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- nestednessGerman
- ένθερμαGreek
- anidamientoSpanish
- emboîtementFrench
- nestednessHungarian
- kebersaranganIndonesian
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- nestednessNorwegian
- sự lồng vào nhauVietnamese
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