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ecology |
scientific study of the interactions between organisms and the environment |
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abiotic component |
nonliving components of an environment, such as chemical or physical factors including temperature, light, water and nutrients |
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biotic component |
all living components of the environment |
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distribution |
geographic range |
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organismal ecology |
study of ecology in organisms |
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population (population ecology) |
a population is a group of individuals of the same species living in a particular geographic area. Population ecology concentrates on factors that affect how many individuals of a particular species live in an area |
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community, community ecology |
Communities consist of all the organisms of all the species that inhabit a particular area. Community ecology deals with the whole spectrum of interacting species in a community. (Predation, competition, disease, abiotic factors) |
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ecosystem, ecosystem ecology |
An ecosystem consists of all the abiotic factors in a community. Ecosystem ecology is the study of energy flow and chemical cycling |
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Landscape ecology |
arrays of ecosystems, patchiness |
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biosphere |
global ecosystem, all organisms in the world |
