Ap biology Ecology
AP Biology Summer Assignment
Chapter 50.1: An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere Ecology is the scientific study of how organisms interact with the environment. When studying Ecology scientists want to know, where organisms live, why they live there, and how many are there. Ecology and environmental biology both stem from Darwin’s interest and observations upon the distribution of organisms and how they adapted to their specific environment. Darwin concluded that the environment interacting with populations could cause evolutionary change. We now know that small changes in the ecological framework can cause changes long down the road. Environments always have both abiotic and biotic components. Abiotic are non-living components and biotic are things that are alive. All organisms in an environment are referred to as “biota”. Subfields of Ecology include, Organismal Ecology, Population Ecology, Community Ecology, Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Ecology. Organismal Ecology is the study of how and organism’s physical being confronts environmental problems. A population is a group or population of alike species all living together in one area or environment. A community is all sorts of organisms all living together in a specific environment. Community ecology concerns the entire spectra of the species in a community. An Ecosystem is all abiotic factors along with the community of species in an area.
50.2: Interactions between organisms and the environment limit the distribution of species Dispersal is when individuals move away from highly populated areas to less populated areas, like diffusion in chemistry. In an attempt to witness the rare act of dispersal, ecologists will normally just do experimental studies rather than trying to watch in nature. Sometimes species are even transplanted into environments, often times not familiar. In order to determine whether a transplant was successful scientists must observe that that species was prosperous
Chapter 50.1: An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere Ecology is the scientific study of how organisms interact with the environment. When studying Ecology scientists want to know, where organisms live, why they live there, and how many are there. Ecology and environmental biology both stem from Darwin’s interest and observations upon the distribution of organisms and how they adapted to their specific environment. Darwin concluded that the environment interacting with populations could cause evolutionary change. We now know that small changes in the ecological framework can cause changes long down the road. Environments always have both abiotic and biotic components. Abiotic are non-living components and biotic are things that are alive. All organisms in an environment are referred to as “biota”. Subfields of Ecology include, Organismal Ecology, Population Ecology, Community Ecology, Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Ecology. Organismal Ecology is the study of how and organism’s physical being confronts environmental problems. A population is a group or population of alike species all living together in one area or environment. A community is all sorts of organisms all living together in a specific environment. Community ecology concerns the entire spectra of the species in a community. An Ecosystem is all abiotic factors along with the community of species in an area.
50.2: Interactions between organisms and the environment limit the distribution of species Dispersal is when individuals move away from highly populated areas to less populated areas, like diffusion in chemistry. In an attempt to witness the rare act of dispersal, ecologists will normally just do experimental studies rather than trying to watch in nature. Sometimes species are even transplanted into environments, often times not familiar. In order to determine whether a transplant was successful scientists must observe that that species was prosperous