ENVR 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Ecology, Human Ecology, Carrying Capacity
19 Jan 2018
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Lecture 4- envr 203 (01/18) nature as ecology. Science is a way to understand reality: way to understand nature = ecology, understand when/how concepts change across time, ecology is seen as objective (a cultural construct, context +power matter. Ecology definition= the study of organisms and their environment. Ecology"s history: focus on equilibrium and succession, shift to non-equilibrium, a list of authors and cultures on how cultures emerge. Idea of interchanges of mater and energy: importance isn"t with species but flow of energy and matter, find system that works need to have a goal (climax form of environment) Time: temporal analysis: synchronic analysis of an isolated snapshot, diachronic accumulation of temporal layers. Habitat/niche: the community provides the habitat- the place where particular plants live: organisms live/occupy, different then ownership look at value and commodity. Fluctuations : non-sucsesional/reversible changes: stability and maintance of a system, way of change, resilience, resist change and persist.
