GEO 131 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gross Domestic Product, Anthropocentrism, Speciesism
5 Sep 2013
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Concerned with the rapidly increasing human population. Endangerment and extinction of species and natural ecosystems interdisciplinary studies. Ecology: defined as the study of the interrelationships of organisms and their environment. Geography: study of the natural features of earth s surface (including climate, topography, soil, and vegetation) Environmental ecology: the ecological effects of pollution and disturbance, human or anthropogenic influences on ecosystems. Ecologist: specialists who study relationships among organisms and the environment. Environmental scientist: generalists who use science-related knowledge, relevant to environmental quality. Environmentalists: involved with environmental issues, involved especially in the sense of advocacy. Earth: diameter 12 700 km, 70% surface covered in water, 30% land. Ecology encompasses: individual organisms living entities, populations individuals of the same species, communities populations of species, landscapes and seascapes spatial integrations over large areas, biosphere composed of all life and ecosystems of earth. Species is an aggregation of individuals and populations that can potentially interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
