NATR 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hereditarily Finite Set, Confounding, Natural Disaster
6 Oct 2020
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Ecologists historically divide the world up to study it. Super complex interactions between lots of species. Focus on a nested set of levels. Most of the questions we ask involve a single level. Group of individuals of the same species living in the same place. When and why do organisms grow, reproduce, and die when they do? (life histories) A group of species found in the same place at the same time. All organisms in a habitat, in association with their physical environment. Rough time of ecology"s origin as a science. Imagine you want to know which pollinator species is most beneficial for a certain type. Watch and record who visits most often. You could allow only one pollinator species access to the flowers, then record how many seeds are produced. Study site = as natural as possible. You could compare plant success between two fields differing in pollinator species. Key: you have to have the space.
