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Ecological effectiveness
Function & outcome
The degree to which an organism or population performs a specified ecological interaction, role, or function at a consequential level. Effectiveness may therefore depend on abundance or density, population structure, distribution, behavior, and ecological interactions rather than simply on species presence.
Soulé, M. E., Estes, J. A., Berger, J., & Martínez del Río, C. (2003). Ecological effectiveness: Conservation goals for interactive species. Conservation Biology, 17(5), 1238–1250.
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