the ecology

It is the science that studies living beings, their environment, the distribution and abundance, how these properties are affected by the interaction between organisms and their environment. The environment includes the physical properties that can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors like climate and geology, and other agencies that share that habitat (biotic factors). The integrated vision of ecology suggests that it is the scientific study processes influencing the distribution and abundance of organisms and the interactions between organisms and the transformation of energy and material flows.

History

Ökologie The term was introduced in 1869 by Prussian German Ernst Haeckel in their work General Morphology of the Agency; is composed of the Greek words oikos (house, apartment, home) and logos (study or treaty), Ecology therefore means "the study household "and how best to manage those. At first, Haeckel meant by ecology science that studies the relationships of living beings with their environment, but later extended this definition to study the characteristics of the medium, which also includes the transport of matter and energy and its transformation by biological communities.

Ecology is the branch of biology that studies the interactions of living organisms with their environment. These include abiotic factors, environmental conditions such as weather, soil, etc., but also includes biological factors, conditions resulting from the relationships established with other living beings. While other branches dealing with lower organizational levels (from biochemistry and molecular biology through cell biology, histology and physiology, systematic), ecology deals with the uppermost level, dealing with population’s communities, ecosystems and the biosphere. For this reason, and address the interactions between individuals and their environment, ecology is a multidisciplinary science that uses tools from other branches of science, especially geology, Meteorology, Geography, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The research in this discipline differs with respect to most of the work in the other branches of biology because of their greater use of mathematical tools such as statistical and mathematical models. In addition, understanding of ecological processes relies heavily on evolutionary assumptions (Dobzhansky, 1973).


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