EVPP 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ecosystem Ecology, Biome, British Mycological Society
19 Aug 2016
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The study of the relation of organisms or groups of organisms to their environment or. The science of the interrelations between living organisms and their environment or. The totality or patterns of relations between organisms and their environment . System: regularly interacting and interdependent components forming a unified whole (bio system) Population: denote a group of individual organisms of the same species in a given area. Community: group of populations of different species in a given area. Ecological system is the whole biotic community in a given area plus its abiotic environment. Subdivisions of ecology taxonomic features: plant ecology, animal ecology. Avian ecology, insect ecology, bacterial ecology, fungal ecology, Habitat: study of ecology based on the basis of the habitats and their interactions and the subsequent effects upon the organisms. The study of the individual organisms: synecology. The study of groups of organisms which are associated together as a unit.
