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Ecological requirement

Landscape–organism relationship

A biotic or abiotic condition, resource, interaction, or spatial characteristic required by an organism or population to achieve a specified biological outcome. In this framework, ecological requirements are empirically derived and are distinguished from the spatial, regulatory, or management specifications subsequently developed to provide them.

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