BIOLOGY 2F03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: David Schindler, American Redstart, Chlorophyll
24 Sep 2016
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Comes from the greek word for house, o kos. Note: natural history serves as a foundation, but stops at describing patterns. Ecologists study environmental relationships ranging from those of individual organisms to factors influencing global-scale processes. Ecology of the biosphere is a subject of global ecology. Landscape ecology seeks to understand the exchange of materials, organisms & energy between communities & ecosystems. Ecosystem ecology includes the study of biological, chemical & physical processes & interactions that occur within a location. One goal is to understand controls on nutrient cycling & energy flow through ecosystems. Community ecology focuses on interactions like predation, parasitism, mutualism, & competition parasitism, mutualism, & competition. Some community ecologists emphasize the evolutionary effects of the interaction on species involved. Some community ecologists explore the effect the interaction has on properties of ecological communities (such as species diversity)
