BIOL 1020U Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Photic Zone, Westerlies, Rachel Carson
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Ecology is the scientific study of the interactions between organisms and the environment and reveals the richness if the biosphere. These in interactions determine distribution of organisms and their abundance. Ecologists work at levels (biosphere (global landscape) ecosystems communities populations organisms: biosphere (the global ecosystem, the sum of all ecosystems) Global ecology examines the influence of energy and materials on organisms across the biosphere. Concept 52. 1 ecology integrates all areas of biological research and informs environmental decision making. Ecology has a long history as a descriptive science and is a rigorous experimental science. Air (atmosphere), water (hydrosphere), soil & rocks (lithosphere), and life (biosphere) Researchers uses a system of troughs and pipes to create artificial wet and dry conditions to study how a forest responds to altered precipitation. Linking ecology and evolutionary biology events that occur in ecological time affect life on the scale of evolutionary time. Concept 52. 2 interactions between organisms and the environment limit the distribution of species.
