EEMB 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Null Hypothesis, Millipede, Conservation Biology
4 Feb 2019
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Physics is to engineering as ecology is to conservation biology & environmental science. Ecology operates in the higher end (organism population ecosystem biosphere) As you go from top to bottom, scaling changes (time & space) Top = temporal & spatial scales get bigger (harder for ecologists to study) 4 woodpeckers in one place population (2 or more individuals of same species in the same place) 1 millipede in one place organism. Woodpeckers + bluejays in one place & interact aggressively against walnuts community (2 or more species in one place) Plants & grasses interact with each other; when one burns it drives nutrients to the other. Sage community & all the land we"re on right now biosphere (living things) Across the congo, the average number of termites captured by chimpanzees during a 5-minute period is 100, with a sd of 10. In a single troop, 25 chimpanzees collected an average of 96 termites.
