BIOLOGY 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tangled, Transect, Neologism
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Study of natural phenomena based on observation and description. Not only the study of organisms, but the study of the physical universe broadly. The roots of modern ecology linnaeus and earlier investigators. Linnaeus the concept of a "struggle for existence" is usually associated with. Darwin and wallace, but it derives from the writings of linnaeus, and it was codified as a struggle of growing populations against resource scarcity by. The struggle for existence is an ecological struggle of organisms against other organisms and organisms against the physical environment in the battle to survive and reproduce. This is a metaphor for a dynamic ecological community, an ecosystem. Haeckel (1869) defined kologie (ecology) as, simply, the. Haeckel based his word on the ancient greek words oikos (meaning comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment. Home ) and logos (meaning to study ) home is reference to environment/habitat of an organism.
