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study of the relationships between organisms and the environment

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Ecology

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How to study ecology?

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Scientific method

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Why do we need to study ecology?

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Developing sustainable practices and increase conservation efforts

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Ecology: Greek word

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oikos (family household) + logy (study of)

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The scientific study of the interactions between the organisms and their environments.

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ecology

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The study of the relationships, distribution, and abundance of organisms, or groups of organisms, in an environment.

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ecology

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What is Ecology not?

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Environmental Science Environmentalism
Resource management

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Why study ecology?

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Intellectual curiosity (explain phenomena)
Ecology has important impacts on everyone’s daily lives
ecology holds key to predicting our future
To understand some of the natural laws that impose limitations on the interaction of organisms (including humans) with their living and nonliving environment

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group of individuals of a species

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Populations

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a system of observation that is “formalized”, which means that it is done in such a way that one can reproduce the observations under the same conditions

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Scientific method

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an inherent feature of science

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uncertainty

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Levels of biological Organization

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Atom > Molecule > Macromolecule > Organelle > Cell > Tissue > Organ > Organ system > Organism
> Population > Community > Ecosystem > Biome > Biosphere

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Biotic component of the forest ecosystem

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plants, animals, microbes that inhabit the forest

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Some elements in common with experiment

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treatment group
control group
randomization
replication

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living organisms, fundamental units of populations and communities

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Individuals

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an assemblages of species populations occurring together in space and time

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Communities

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a collection of two related (interacting) components (biotic or living and abiotic or physical) that function as a unit

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Ecosystems

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the study of environment influence on the evolution of organisms (e.g. natural selection)

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Evolution ecology

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forms the basic unit in ecology. It is the individual that respond to the environment

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Individual organism

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Abiotic component of the forest ecosystem

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atmosphere, climate, soil, and water

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the set of phenomena that can be explained only by looking at a particular hierarchical level

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Emergent properties

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the study of how groups of individuals (belonging to the same species) grow (or shrink) and reproduce. Depending on the nature of the species, many factors (food availability, competition, predation, etc.) may affect population growth

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Population ecology

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the study of how behavior of individuals affects their ability to survive and reproduce (e.g. population growth rate)

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Behavioral ecology

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the study of how physical factors affect the survival and reproduction of individual organisms

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Physiological ecology

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the study of how populations from different species interact to mutually affect each population’s growth and survival, community structure and dynamics

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Community ecology

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the study if whole living systems, with focus on the flow of energy and biomass in large scale living systems

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Ecosystem ecology

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Importance of Ecology

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  • Maintain a healthier and more productive biosphere
  • Provide principles for rational use of natural resources (conservation)
  • Provide bases for the formulation of good conservation policy
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study spatial patterns and underlying mechanisms (patches in landscape, fragmented landscape, corridors); uses GSIS and the goal is to predict the responses of different organisms to change in landscape, to ultimately facilitate ecosystem management

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Landscape ecology

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