Santa Rosa Flashcards

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Why do we need to take ecology?

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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

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Characteristics of Santa Rosa

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High Biological Diversity
Water availability
Forestry

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Ecology

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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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4
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Eco

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home

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Ecosystem

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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

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Joseph Grinnell

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Coined the term “niche”

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Niche

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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.

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