Ecology

fragmentation has become an increasing issue. Island biogeography has helped with understanding what fragmentation can do and has helped with developments in several areas such as landscape ecology in North America (Wu and Vankat 1995). However, Kent (2007) explains the relationship between landscape ecology and biogeography is uncertain. Purse et al. (2015) use landscape and climate to help determine why an alien species Harmonia axyridis was more prone to spread to some areas but not others.…

Benefits of Natural Forest Fires to Forest Ecology Introduction Since its discovery, fire has fascinated man with its potential. Fire provides light and heat and while it destroys some things that come in contact with it, it is also capable of metamorphosing other things for the overall benefit of life. Natural fires are a routine occurrence in forested areas, especially during hot and dry weather conditions or due to lightning strikes. In the summer of 1988, for example, 42 instances of…

This datasheet provided information on common slugs. It went into short detail about slugs’ dietary needs and how this can be damaging to plants kept in the yard. It also discussed slugs’ basic activity patterns and how they are drawn out at night and occasionally on rainy days. The main purpose of this sheet, however, was to provide information on how to maintain slug populations in your yard. The methods described included the elimination of shelter, using fermented materials as bait in a trap…

T., Valentini, A., Miquel, C., Taberlet, P., Bellemain, E., & Miaud, C. (2012). Improved detection of an alien invasive species through environmental DNA barcoding: The example of the American bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49, 953­959. doi:10.1111/j.1365­2664.2012.02171.x In this research work authors suggests that It is more easy to destroy the Alien Invasive Species(AIS) at their very initial stage. They supported that now it is possible to detect low amount of…

As the nation revolves around education, which tends to not be an advocate of the understanding of ecology. “One of the requisites for an ecological comprehension of the land is an understanding of ecology, and this is by no means coextensive with ‘education’, in fact high education seems deliberately to avoid ecological concepts” (Leopold, 17). From an individual point of view, I feels as though I fall…

The Eames created a distinct space where nature and civilization impact and affect the presence of one another. Human relationship to the surrounding social environment is also pertinent when constructing the Eames’s narrative. Ray Eames’s sculpture fashioned from a salvaged post of the old Ocean Park Pier sits in the patio space directly outside of the living room. The sculpture was fashioned from a 5-foot burnt wooden beam with a rusted curving spike protruding from the top. Ray Eames did…

Behavioral ecology usage patterns such as site fidelity, residency, and distribution are known to be reliant on ecological factors (Campbell, Bilgre, & Defran, 2002). The ways in which ecological factors affect such usage patterns are based on the ratio of costs, like competition for food or other resources, to benefits, like protection from predators, and this ratio as a whole is greatly affected by the predictability of resources in the area both temporally and spatially (Lusseau et al., 2004;…

The deep ecology is an example of movement. However, Ramachandra Guha criticizes the movement. Guha acknowledges the deep ecology philosophy, although he doubts its wellbeing in the underdeveloped nations stipulating that it fits the American civilization. The primary focus of preserving the wilderness could threaten the economic survival of most underdeveloped nations. Guha recognized four fundamental features of deep ecology concerning nature/human…

to know who and what is valuable or not for that specific community. However, it seems that in the end the conqueror ends up not knowing either and therefore is defeated. One of the basics for an ecological understanding of land is to understand ecology. There is also a belief that economics determines land-use, but this is not true. The land owners are the ones to determine how things will be done based on investment time, skill, faith and other such aspects, but not the investment of money.…

ecocentric Deep Ecology ecological movement is to end the dominantion and power relationships modern humans have over nonhuman Nature, and to set up realistic biological conditions under which the wild species and biodiversity of the earth can exist and flourish. The deep ecological approach to contesting Earth’s future is to distinguish between the vital and the nonvital needs of humans. The vital needs of nonhumans get priority before the non vital needs of humans. Deep Ecology, Radical…