BSC 2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ectotherm, Organism, Heat Flux
20 Mar 2017
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House: the study of house, the study of organism with surrounding environment. And with abiotic environment: the scientific study between organisms and their environments, ecology isn"t activism. Scientific method: observation, question, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, either supports hypothesis or doesn"t. Key concept: ecological system vary over space and time. How do ecologists study the natural world: they organize ecological systems using a scale. Scales of ecological organization: biosphere, only 1, all organisms and environments of the planet, ecosystem, communities plus abiotic environment, community a. Interactions among populations of different species: population, groups of individual of same species interacting, organism, survival and reproduction. Zika: 2 week life cycle, transmission to humans, flavirious. How do organisms survive hot and dry conditions: kangaroo mouse. Key concepts: ecological systems vary over space and time, solar energy input and topography shape earth"s physical environments, solar energy input and topography shape earth"s physical environments (climate, variations in solar energy drive patterns of weather and climate.
