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Ecology: background information

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Ecology: Definitions Ecology: The scientific study of the interactions between organisms and their environment that determines the distribution and abundance of organisms Ecology is a science Environmentalism is a cause Conservation Biology is the integration of these two: using science to support a political cause Population ecology: experimental field approach: natural populations manipulated to test specific predictions arising from controversial ecological theory Organismal ecology: studies how an organism?s structure, physiology, and (for animals) behaviour meet environmental challenges Population: all the individuals of the same species within an ecosystem Population ecology focuses on factors affecting how many individuals of a species live in an area

AP Biology Notes on Ecology

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UNIT 15 - ECOLOGY List of Terms Ecology: study of interactions of organisms with their environment and with each other Population: group of individuals of one species in one area that can breed and interact with one another Community: all the organisms in one area Ecosystem: All the organisms in an area and abiotic factors in that area Abiotic factors: nonliving, include temperature, water, sunlight, wind, rocks, etc. Biosphere: global ecosystem Biotic potential: max rate at which a population can increase under ideal conditions Influenced by factors like age at which reproduction begins, lifespan during which you can reproduce, # of reproductive periods in lifetime, and the max # of offspring the organism can produce
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