Lecture 1

Question 1

What is ecology and what does it involve?

Answer 1

The study of the factors that determine the distribution and abundance of species
-physical environment
-species interactions
-human impacts

Question 2

Species distributions

Answer 2

Animals live near environments they are suited for

Question 3

Abundance

Answer 3

Understanding population growth and decline

Question 4

Ecological Niche

Answer 4

Match between organism and environment

Question 5

What is disease?

Answer 5

Function impairing condition that reduces survival/reproduction (Darwinian fitness)

Question 6

What can cause disease?

Answer 6

-Environmental toxins
-heritable disease
-pathogens/parasites

Question 7

What is ecology

Answer 7

Species interactions + environmental context

Question 8

Disease ecology

Answer 8

Study pf interactions between hosts, pathogens, and their environment within the context of evolution

Question 9

What did John Snow do?

Answer 9

Used epidemiology to track down cholera outbreak
-drew black bars on map whenever there was an outbreak
-found a contaminated water pump at location where there was the most black bars

Question 10

What was so different about COVID 19 compared to previous SARS outbreak

Answer 10

People w/ transmissible infections were harder to identify