ENVS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lux, Ecological Succession, Natural Experiment

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS200
• Professor: Anne Grant

Document Summary

Chapter 1 ecology and how to do it. Definition of ecology: the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of organisms, the interactions that determine that distribution and abundance, and the relationships between organisms and the transformation and lux of energy and matter. Populations are functioning groups of individual organism of the same. Ecologists study levels from individual organisms, to populations, communities, ecosystems, and the global biosphere. species in a defined location. location. environment in which they exist. environment at the scale of the entire planet. The biosphere is the totality of all of life interacting with the physical. Communities consist of all the species populations present in a defined. Ecosystems included both the community of organisms and the physical. Observations, often of changes in abundance or system functioning over. Experiments, including both thoses in the lab and in the field. Mathematical models that capture some component of ecological interations,