ENWC314 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ernst Haeckel, Systems Ecology, Zoology

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Entomology and Wildlife Conservation
• Course: ENWC314
• Professor: Emara Marlene

Document Summary

1. 1 interaction between species determine where organisms live and how many live there: ecology scientific study of the interactions that determine the distribution and abundance of organisms some interactions are between diff species. Other interactions are between organisms and factors in the physical enviro, including temp and precip: distribution where organisms are found, abundance how many organisms live in a given place. Distribution and abundance of many species vary in space: ecology and environmentalism. We are constrained by principles of ecology when we alter the environment. Humans are a dominant species in the world today, and ecology is concerned with how humans interact with all others kinds of organisms of all the sciences, ecology is one of the closest to our daily lives. 2000 years old providential design, which held that nature is designed to benefit and preserve each species, which was implicit in the writings of.