ecology 1

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study on relationships between a organism’s and its envirobent

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ecology

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“oikos”

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family

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scientific method

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1. make observations.
2. generate questions
   3.generate hypothesis
   4 design an experiment
   5.accept/reject
   6.start again

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living organisms fundamental unit of populations and communities

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individuals

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group of individuals of a species

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populations

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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 components (biotic & abiotic) that function as a unit

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ecosystem

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2 basic interacting components of an ecosystem

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living/biotic and physical/abiotic

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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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basic unit of ecology

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individual

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study of how behavior of individuals affect their ability to survive and reproduce

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behavioral ecology

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

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physiological ecology (autecology)

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study of environment influence on the evolution of organism

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evolution ecology

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study of how groups of individuals grow and reproduce

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population ecology

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study of how populations from different species interact to mutually affect each populations growth and survival .

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community ecology

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

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ecosystem ecology

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study of spacial patterns and underlying mechanisms

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landscape ecology

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uses GIS and the goal is to predict the responses of apparent organisms to changes in landscape to ultimately facilitate ecosystem management

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landscape ecology

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German zoologist , who originally coined the term ecology in 1866

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Ernst
Haeckel

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an area of land (or water) composed of a patchwork of communities and ecosystems.

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landscape

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The broad-scale regions
dominated by similar types of ecosystems, such as tropical rain
forests, grasslands, and deserts, are referred to as

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biomes

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highest level of organization of ecological systems—the thin layer surrounding the Earth that supports all of life. I

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biosphere

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are abstract, simplified representations of real systems.

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Models

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may be mathematical, like computer simulations, or they may be verbally descriptive, like Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection

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models

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typically reserved for circumstances in which the hypothesis has at least some limited support through observations and experimental results.

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models

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near surface temperatures warmer than they would be without this blanket of gases. This is known as the

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“greenhouse effect,”

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One moves northward toward the pole, diverted to the right by the Coriolis effect to become the

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prevailing westerlies

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the other current moves southward toward the equator. Also deflected to the right, this southward flowing stream becomes the strong, reliable winds that were called

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trade winds