BIOL 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ecological Niche, Environmental Policy, Homeostasis
12 Oct 2016
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Physiology is how we function as organisms. The study of organism structure and function, including homeostasis and encompassing cells, tissues, organs, and body systems. Biological impacts (eg: biodiversity changes, disease, migration: some species are coming to the arctic that have never been there before, affecting the people/species that already live there. Political and economic impacts (eg: arctic sovereignty, natural resources, environmental policy) What we know from online material and other: key abiotic variables in arctic, examples of arctic plants and animals. What are the species that live there, what changes are they going to go through: how temperature changes impact organisms at different levels of organization. When we study ecology, we focus mostly on the realized niche of an organism, which is largely influenced by its biological interactions. Occurs at multiple levels of biological organization. Going to look at the effects of temperature, ionic environment, photoperiod, and how different species react/adapt to it.
