BIOL208 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Water, Photosynthesis, Water Vapor
20 Nov 2018
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Definition: an arbitrarily defined geographic volume connected to other ecosystem by a series of inputs and outputs. apart from the system. Additionally, they have a time, dimension and humans can either be a part of the system, or. Biosphere: all space occupied by living things on earth. Ecosystem: a region containing interacting abiotic and biotic factors. Autoecology (or autecology): the ecological study of an individual organism or of an individual species, particularly interactions with the. Hierarchy of ecology ecology that focuses on the flow of energy and nutrients among the biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem. scientific study of interactions among species within a community. study of the structure and dynamics of populations. The scientific method: developed hypotheses must be: Allows for scientists to test ideas of what the mechanisms are behind observed phenomena. Community: population of species that occur together i the same space and time. Population: individuals of the same species that co-occur in space and time.
