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General Ecology
Ecology Notes
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Environmental Studies
Undergraduate 3
09/09/2009
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What is Ecology?

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-a science dealing with organisms in their environment.

-the study of Interactions (ie. predation, competition, parasitism, mutualism,etc) between organisms and their environment(biotic or abiotic)
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Why Study Ecology?
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-major way of understanding our world

-to determine the impact we are having on our planet
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Ecological Levels of Organization
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Organism/Individual->Population            ->Community->Ecosystem
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Emergent Properties
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properties that emerge at one level and are not present at the lower levels

example:Life is an emergent property of the cell level
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