Fields Of Ecology

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The domain of physiological ecology and behavioral ecology.

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Ecology of Individuals

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How organisms survive in their environment.
Emphasis on extreme conditions and their adaptation.

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Physiological Ecology

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Examines factor that drive behavioral adaptation. How individual find food and their enemies.

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Behavioral ecology

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Examines the environmental factors that drive species adaptation.

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Evolutionary ecology

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Or autecology. Examines single species. Why some species are rare while others are abundant.

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Population ecology

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Evolutionary effects of the interaction on the species.

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Ecology of Interactions

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Or synecology. Often focuses on subsets of organisms.

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Community ecology

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Examines large-scale ecological issue. Biomass.

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Ecosystem ecology

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Study of landscape structure and processes.

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Landscape ecology

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Leads us to the largest spatial and highest level - Biosphere

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Geographical ecology

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What factors predispose species to extinction and what humans can do about preventing extinction.

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Conservation ecology

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Indisciplinary study of the ecology of the Earth’s atmosphere boundary.

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Aerocology

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Study of urban areas as complex dynamic ecological systems, influenced by interconnected biological, physical and social factors.

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Urban ecology