BIOL 1104 Lecture 2: BIOL 1104 Lecture Notes- Section II- Ecology
4 Sep 2018
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Chapter 54: community ecology: healthy coral reef provides healthy environment and healthy proteins to feed animals such as us, many of the reefs around the earth are being covered in algae and being destroyed. Ecology: scientific study of the interactions (abiotic and biotic) that determine distribution & abundance of organisms (scientific methodology to see how they work) First step towards understanding distribution & abundance of organisms: concept of multiple scales. Static and dynamic, and their interactions between the scales. Tati(cid:272): (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:396)eall(cid:455) k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat"s goi(cid:374)g o(cid:374), hard for us to understand, but we can keep going up, look from a higher scale, and the biggest would be looking at multiple reef systems in different islands. Ca(cid:374)"t stud(cid:455) just one s(cid:272)ale to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449) something works. Dynamics: the interactions (the competition, the growth, the effects of something-maybe a broken coral from an anchor coming down- looking at the interaction between humans and the effect they have on corals)
