BIO 3117 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Systems Theory, Bromeliaceae, Experimental Forest
31 Jan 2018
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Study of organisms and how they interact with each other and the environment. Populations, distribution, traits, diversity, amount of resources, behaviour, species interactions, community, ecosystem services. Species diversity, functional groups, abundance, total biomass, species, composition, trophic structure, contaminant concentration. Energy cycling, primary productivity, evapotranspiration, flow of energy, nutrients and contaminants, invasion, ecological succession. Ecology ecosystem page 1 contaminants, invasion, ecological succession. Study of links between organisms and heir physical environment within an earth system context. Requires and understanding of the response of organisms to their environment and the effects of organisms on their environment. Integrated approach rather than focus of individual organisms or physical components. Components that work together for an emergent property. Eg not just an individual tree in an forest or a single cell vs a heart. Eg biosphere, biomes, ecoregions, landscapes, drainage basin, bromeliad leaf. Eg the experimental forest basin at coweeta, north ccarolina. Eg ubc experimenter with the bromeliad close leaf, all is one ecosystem.
