| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Edge effect | Aerospace | See diffraction, note. (references) | |
| Edge effect | Avian | (1) changes in a community due to the rapid creation of abrupt edges in large units of previously undisturbed habitat (Reese and Ratti 1988:127); (2) tendency for increased variety and density of organisms at community or habitat junctions (Odum 1971:157). (references) | |
| Edge Effect | Forestry | 1: The effect of adjoining vegetative communities on the population structure along the margin. Edge effect often provides for greater numbers of species and higher population densities than are found individually in either adjoining community. Edge may result in negative effects because habitat along an edge is different than in the patch of habitat, thus reducing the effective area of the habitat patch. (references) | |
| 2: Habitat conditions (such as degree of humidity and exposure to light or wind) created at or near the more-or-less well-defined boundary between ecosystems, as, for example, between open areas and adjacent forest. (references) | |||
| Edge effect | Geology | The tendency for a transitional zone between communities (an ecotone) to contain a greater variety of species and more dense populations of species than either community surrounding it. (references) | |
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