BIOL-2356EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Henry Chandler Cowles, Ernst Haeckel, Theophrastus
10 Sep 2018
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Ecology: the scientific study of relationships between organisms and their environment. ~early hunters and gathers had to know about the ecology of their food. ~early farmers had to know about the ecology of their crop plants. Wheat was cultivated in mesopotamia thousands of years ago: Ecological mismanagement led to salinization and to the collapse of the culture. Modern farmers also have to deal with ecology today. *humans are not only affected by their environment, they also have an effect on the environment! ~ "ecology is the study of all those complex interrelationships referred to by darwin as the conditions of the struggle for existence" A greek philosopher described interrelationships between animals and between animals and their environment as early as the 4th century bv. German naturalist, explorer study of the relationship between organisms and their environment. One of the primary popularizers of the term ecology in the us.
