PCB 3043C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Spatial Scale, Nature Reserve, Ernst Haeckel
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Services : things it does or provides (ecological services) relationships among organisms and with their biophysical environments. People are just part of the ecology equation. Approach to understanding the way the natural world works. Study of the structiure and function of nature (odum 1971) Scientific study of the interactions that determine the distribution and abundance of organisms (krebs 1985) Study of the relationship between organisms and their physical and biological environments (ehrlich and roughgarden 1987) Ex) st. francis of assisi: explorers to victorian naturalists: huge age of expansion of knowledge about the natural world. Ex) ship-board naturalists like darwin: dawn of preservation , ex) main ridge forest reserve, tobago a. i. Possibly oldest protected area in western hemisphere a. ii. Preserved in 1765 act to preserve rains : north american parks system, science of ecology, the term ecology was first used by ernst haeckel, became entrenched in early to mid 20th century: expansion of ecological thought.
