BIO201H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Organism, Ecosystem Approach
EXAM PREP
December 11, 2013
9:08 PM
BIO120 Course Notes
Thomas:
• Principle of allocation, which simply says that resources invested in
one function are unavailable to invest in other functions
• William Cronon's two common perceptions of nature and of
humankind's relationship to nature
a. Nature tends toward a self-resorting equilibrium when left alone
• Notion referred to as "balance of nature"
b. Absence of human interference, nature exists in pristine state
