AGRI 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bioenergy, One Health, Environmental Health
27 Feb 2019
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Significant work in one health has focused on animal health and infectious diseas. The environmental health aspect of the triad has been the least researched. Ecohealth: the ecological context of health 60-75% of emerging infectious d those originate in wildlife. Ecology: the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to physical surroundings. Ecology emerged in the late 19th century as the study of the interactions of or environment . Originally descriptive - wasn"t a lot of hard science, hard measurement, to this fiel (below) Theories of adaptation, evolution, speciation became central to the field and led to approaches to its study. Ecology components - these levels increase as we go down. Population ecology: the study of the population dynamics of a species in a d. Community ecology: clustering of populations of species into communities. Ecosystem ecology: biotic and abiotic components of ecological systems, bio energy and materials.
