BIOSC 0370 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Wildebeest, Vito Volterra, Virus
12 Oct 2018
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States that environment is both biotic and a biotic #t - ecology focuses on organisms, not environments (biggest diff between ecology and environmental science . ) Ecology also deals with whom occurs with whom and why ( or doesn"t ) . * relationship to other biological sciences - ecology complex, synthetic - has close ties to many natural sciences . Predator abundance ?: demography - study of vital statistics . that affect pop. size (birth /death rate ) importance - started thinking quantitatively about abundance 4 . First attempt to be comprehensive encyclopedia af organisms and their attributes ( such as ecology ) . Argument - humans have the potential to grow exponentially whereas food supply grows arithmetically - famine, pests , plaques, supply control populations. important to thinking of darwin and wallace. Only cared about human pop ( darwin applied it to all ) . First attempt at complex mathematical model of ecological interaction.
