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Topics 3.1 and 3.2 By: Alejandro Gutiérrez & Alejandro Garza

What is Ecology? & Producers and Consumers

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Topics 3.1 and 3.2

By: Alejandro Gutiérrez & Alejandro Garza

What is Ecology?

Greek origin

OIKOS = household

LOGOS = study of…

Study of the “house/environment” in which we live.

Ecology is study of interactions between

non-living components in the environment… light water wind nutrients in soil heat solar radiation atmosphere, etc.

AND…

Living organisms… Plants Animals microorganisms in soil, etc.

To study Ecology involves…

non-living (abiotic) Climatology

Hydrology

Oceanography

Physics

Chemistry

Geology

soil analysis, etc.

living (biotic) animal behavior Taxonomy Physiology mathematics (population studies) etc.

Ecology… views each locale as an integrated whole of

interdependent parts that function as a unit.

Tundra Caribou

Nonliving

dead organic matter

nutrients in the soil and water.

Producers

Green plants

Consumers

herbivores and carnivores

Decomposers fungi and bacteria

Levels of organization - Terms Biosphere

Surface of the earth

Composed of many ecosystems

Ecosystem

Large or small as we decide

Backyard, O’Melveney Park, Hedge along Room 110, etc.

Levels of organization - Terms

Population – one species live in one place at one time

Community – All populations (diff. species) that live in a particular area.

Levels of organization - Terms

Habitat – physical location of community

Organism – simplest level of organization

Ecosystem: Very complex Can contain 100’s to 1000’s

of interacting species.