ecology |
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the study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and the factors and interactions that affect them. |
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aristotle |
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historia animalium |
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herodotus and plato |
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providental ecology |
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graunt and leeuwenhoek |
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1662 and 1687, population growth |
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Farr |
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1843, farr's rule = relationship between the density of a population and the death rate |
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buffon, malthus, quetelet and verhulst |
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population regulation |
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Edward Forbes and H.C. Cowles |
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community regulation and succession |
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Robert Ross |
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systems analysis.mathematical model of the spread of infectious disease |
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Tansley, Clements, and Elton |
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early 1900s. some founders of ecology |
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Time when ecology finally seemed important |
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1960 |
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Abiotic components |
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non-living chemical and physical factors (temperature, light, nutrients, water) |
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Biotic components |
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living (biological) factors(other organisms, competition, predation) |
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Interaction |
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abiotic and biotic components interact, both organisms and environment affect eachother. |
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