Environmental Science 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Null Hypothesis, Resource Consumption, Inductive Reasoning
28 Jan 2013
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Reading: freedman chapter 1 (3 fields of study from here ) Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field that investigates questions related to the human population, resources, and damage caused by pollution and disturbance: sustainability is a key subject area of both the human economy and the natural world. Ecology is the study of the relationships of organisms and their environment: the focus is on factors affecting the organization of the natural world; sustainability and other environmental" issues are not core themes of ecology. Hierarchical framework of the universe includes consideration of life on earth: organized at various scales, ranging from extremely small to incredibly large life occupies intermediate levels of the hierarchy the realm of ecology encompasses, individual organisms, populations. 1: communities, landscapes (and seascapes, the biosphere. Species: an aggregation of individuals and populations that can potentially interbreed and produce fertile offspring. Ecosystem: one or more communities of organisms interacting with their environment as a defined unit.
