Santa Rosa Flashcards
Why do we need to take ecology?
Many infections today have an ecological component; i.e. COVID-19 was spread by bats and if you remove bats from the ecosystem, there will be a collapse, as they play a big role, so there needs to be other solutions
Characteristics of Santa Rosa
High Biological Diversity
Water availability
Forestry
Ecology
the study of ecosystems or the scientific study of the interaction of organisms with their environment, including the physical environment and the other organisms living in it
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Ecosystem
the organisms living in a particular environment, such as a lake or a forest, (or, in increasing scale, an ocean or the whole planet), the physical part of the environment that impinges on them
Joseph Grinnell
Coined the term “niche”
Niche
The place occupied by a species in its ecosystem, where it eats, what it eats, its foraging route, the season of its activity, and so on. A potential place within a given ecosystem into which the species may or may not have evolved.