BLG 144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Rachel Carson, Northern Hemisphere, Hadley Cell
31 Mar 2017
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The study of the area around which you live. Ddt was commonly used in the late 50. People used to use ddt to keep the ants out, and also for hair to keep the lice out. Was the first person to build the linkages of the widespread use of these chemicals. The river that oozes rather than flows. The effort to study, preserve, and restore threatened species, populations, communities, and ecosystems. Ecology gets political when you understand the interconnections. Study of the relationship between organisms and their environment, where the environment is composed of (a"s and b"s). Study of the distribution and abundance of organisms. Organisms interact with their environment at different hierarchical levels. Hierarchical levels are both a matter of scale. Levels of organization that we humans make definition about. Related to the special scales of investigation. You can actually observe the nests of the birds.
