BIOLOGY 331: GENERAL ECOLOGY TEST 1‚ FALL 2009 STUDY GUIDE Concepts: What is Ecology? • Foundation Disciplines (esp.‚ behavior‚ ecology‚ genetics‚ evolution) • What it is not (i.e.‚ not a study of environmental problems‚ but rather a study of interactions among organisms and environment) Levels of Organization • Individual organism • Population • Community • Ecosystem (with the abiotic environment) Limiting Factors – abiotic vs. biotic Adaptation
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Ethics of ecology focuses on sustaining business and environment. Ethics is a set of principles about right and wrong and how human beings should behave. Ecology is about inter- relationships – between living organisms (both plants & animals) and between biological & physical entities. As people now realise that the environment is a limited resource‚ awareness all over the world of the necessity to protect and save the environment has grown as well. From the Bill of Rights‚ Chapter 2‚ of the S.A
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John D Rockefeller Population ecology is a perspective that seeks to explain the factors that affect the life cycles of organizations. It also suggests why some organizations survive for longer than the others. Earlier theories such a the such as the strategic choice theory argued that organizations try to adapt to changing environments and the ones that do it successfully survive. The population ecology perspective states that it is the environment that selects organizations
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General Principles of Aquatic Ecology KAREN L. LANCOUR National Rules Committee Chairman – Life Science Part I: General Principles of Aquatic Ecology Aquatic Ecosystems Freshwater Lotic ecosystems – flowing water o Streams o Rivers Lentic ecosystems – still water o Ponds o Lakes o Wetlands Estuary ecosystems Marine ecosystems o Coral Reef Ecology Review of Ecology Principles: Ecology = the systematic study of how organisms interact with one another and with their environment
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Population Ecology Take the theory of Darwinism and apply in business you will get the theory of Population Ecology in business. Population Ecology was merged in the seventies and founded by Michael Hnnan and John Freeman. Borrowed from biology‚ it is the process of natural selection in business and organizations with the favorable traits are more likely to survive‚ which means that organizations depend on the environment to survive. Luck‚ chance‚ and randomness play an important role
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“Media Ecology” “Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman laid down the foundational principles of media ecology‚ a term that is increasingly being used to describe the totality of our media environments.”(Source: mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com). Media ecology is about how the technology changes the society and the environment we’ve grown from. Marshall McLuhan‚ a media scholar is the one who conceptualize the term media ecology. And Neil Postman is the one who introduced it to the
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BUSINESS AND ECOLOGY Businesses damage the environment when they take natural resources from the Earth and dispose of waste. All of this is done within the natural environment‚ a kind of ecological system or “ecosystem.” THE DIMENSION OF ECOLOGICAL PROBLEM Ecological Problems: These are the some of the environmental issues we face today: 1. Non-stop illegal mining. 2. Air pollution contaminates the air‚ despoils vegetation and crops‚ corrodes construction materials‚ and threatens our lives
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Terrestrial Ecology Teamates: Olivia Nohrenhold Philippe Mukubi Daniel Ishmael Site: RRCC Old Frisbee Golf Course The BIO112‚ Sec 001 class did an investigative ecological survey in the field‚ just north of the Main Lakewood Campus. This report specifically focuses on circular plot #4. Team-Two consisted of Lance Harris‚ Daniel Ishmael‚ Olivia Nohrenhold‚ and Philippe Mukubi. Each member had various disciplines of study. Each topic has its corresponding researcher‚ next to the each heading
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Jill Payne Mrs. Healey Ecology March 7‚ 2011 Essay I have recently found several acres of land to plant my crops on although the land is not in the best condition. I have many concerns about planting on this land and thought of some measures throughout the upcoming years to improve the condition of my land. While thinking of these ideas to help improve my property I went back to the things I learned in the soil and agriculture chapters in my wonderful ecology class. I remembered how important
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Ecology and Evolution Crystal Dillon-Reeves BIO/315 April 1‚ 2013 Howard Rubin‚ Ph.D. Ecology and Evolution Beren Robinson performed remarkable field study of threespine sticklebacks. These fish closely relate to ecology and evolution. The researchers original findings are different than that of Robinson’s field study. His hypothesis states that the threespine sticklebacks varied phenotypes are the handiwork of natural selection supporting the discrepancy in the population. Diet and the
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