BIOL 4253 Chapter : Ecology Chapters 1 2
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Slide 4 ecology is separate from environmentalism and conservation biology it is a sub discipoline under the broader umbrella of environmental science. Understanding the dead z one phenomenon, for example, is a combination of processes and processes of human influences further up the mississippi. Runoff enters in to the river"s drainage, and fertilizers make way down ms river. Those fertilizers make it into the gulf where they cause dead zone phenomeneon. Social aspects to this, natural geological processes, etc, all of which fits under environmental science. Slide 5 environmentalism isn"t the same as ecology. All of tese more directive, applied oriented fields make use of ecology, but they are not the same as ecology. Slide 6 sense of what ecology is, think of various levels of biological organization. Start from the smallest scale, such as atoms connecting to molecules, to macromolecules, to a cell, which is the smallest, irreducible unit of life.
