BIOL 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Santa Barbara City College, Ernst Haeckel, Great Lakes
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Ecology- greek oikos = study of home the other organisms (biotic) and environmental conditions (abiotic) The scientific study of the abundance and distribution of organisms in relation to. Term coined by ernst haeckel in the late 1800s. Darwin didn"t use the word ecology but used the concept. Compared the large number of interactions in nature to the number of interactions between consumers and businesses in human economic systems. Subject to constant revision as we learn more about the world around us because the environment is rapidly changing. Attempt to understand how our own species can impact entire ecological. Manage environmental concerns related to land use, water, natural communities. We consider the full ecological system catastrophes, and public health. A biological entity with its own internal entities and processes but also interacts. Exists at several different levels in a hierarchy with its external surroundings (climate, weather) Ecologists ask questions about the natural world that can include organisms and their abiotic surroundings.
