Ecology: Patterns and Processes Flashcards
What is ecology?
The study of distribution and abundance of organisms; and the factors and interactions that determine them
Three questions to ask in ecology
Where, how many, why
Ecology vs environmentalism
Environmentalism uses findings from ecology
Biotic is
Living
Abiotic
Physical and chemical
Interaction is a combination of
Biotic and abiotic factor
The process of hunting and gathering started the use of
Ecology
Aristotle wrote
Historia animalium
Herodotus and Plato
Providebtial ecology
Graunt and Leeuwenhoek wrote
Population growth (human)Father of demography
Buffon, Malthus, Quetelet, and Verhulst
Population regulation
Farr wrote about
Relation between density and mortality
Farrs rule
Density up, mortality up
Forbes
Community regulation and succession
Ross
Mathematical model of infectious disease
Tansley, Clemets, Elton
Experimental modern ecology
Showed importance of ecology
Carson
Malthus
Exponential growth for revolutions
Quetelet
Logistic population growth
Cowels
Community regulation
Wrote silent spring bout the use of pesticides
Silent spring
Ecology scale only goes up to
B iosphereE cosystemC ommunityP opulationO rganism
Organism
Single individual of a species
Population
2 or more individuals of the sameSpecies in the same area
Community
2 or more populations in the same area
Ecosystem
Community with it’s physical environment
Ecosystem explains the _____ flow and cycling of ______ amount biotic and abiotic components
EnergyNutrients
Community explains
Interactions
Population explains
Factors that affect size and composition
Organism explains
BPMBehaviors, physiology, and morphology
P-value
The strength of conclusions being drawn
Null hypothesis
Assuming that variables have no association with each other
Significance testing
If p < or = 0.05, you reject the null hypothesis
