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ACT 1.1 ECOLOGY TODAY - Coggle Diagram
ACT 1.1 ECOLOGY TODAY
Branches of science
Mathematics
Ecologists are often interested in how populations, communities, and ecosystems change in space and time; fortunately, there exists the dynamical systems theory.
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Descision theory
Statistical decision theory is a sub‐field of decision theory that formally incorporates statistical investigation into a decision‐theoretic framework to account for uncertainties in a decision problem.
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Physics
ecologists discovered that ecosystems are open systems, while theories of physics are more suitable for handling closed systems.
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Chemistry
Chemical ecology examines the role of chemical interactions between living organisms and their environment.
Earth science
environmental science incorporates many elements of earth and life sciences, ecology is usually more focused on how organisms interact with each other
Biochemistry
Ecology is largely observational, is concerned with interactions between living organisms in their natural habitats, and is carried out in the field. By contrast, biochemistry is experimental.
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Microbiology
Microbiology is the ecology of microorganisms: their relationship with one another and with their environment.
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Botany
is that ecology is the branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other while botany is the scientific study of plants.
Zoology
Ecology is the study of organisms and of their interactions with their biotic and abiotic environment, whereas zoology is the study of animals.
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Autoecology
is an approach in ecology that seeks to explain the distribution and abundance of species by studying interactions of individual organisms with their environments. An autecological approach differs from both synecologyand population ecology
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Population ecology
is a sub-field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment, such as birth and death rates, and by immigration and emigration).
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Systems ecology
is an interdisciplinary field of ecology, a subset of Earth system science, that takes a holistic approach to the study of ecological systems, especially ecosystems
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Aplied ecology
is a sub-field within ecology that considers the application of the science of ecology to real-world questions.
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