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Ecology
1. Ecology studies the distribution and abundance of living organisms, and the interactions between organisms and their environment. The habitat of an organism can be described as the local abiotic factors such as climate and ecology, in addition to the other organisms and biotic factors that share its environment.
2. One reason that biological systems can be difficult to study is that so many different interactions with other organisms and the environment are possible, even on the smallest of scales. A microscopic bacterium responding to a local sugar gradient is responding to its environment as much as a lion is responding to its environment when it searches for food in the African savanna. For any given species, behaviors can be co-operative, aggressive, parasitic, or symbiotic. Matters become more complex when two or more different species interact in an ecosystem. Studies of this type are within the province of ecology.
3. Ecological systems are studied at several different levels, from individuals and populations to ecosystems and the biosphere. The term population biology is often used interchangeably with population ecology, although population biology is more frequently used when studying diseases, viruses, and microbes, while population ecology is more commonly when studying plants and animals. As can be surmised, ecology is a science that draws on several disciplines.
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Ecology draws on several disciplines including population biology studying diseases, viruses, and microbes and population ecology studying plants and animals.
The study of biological systems can be difficult due to many different interactions with other organisms and the environment are possible.
The life of living organisms is affected by abiotic factors such as climate and ecology as well as biotic factors connected with organisms’ functioning in the environment.
Ecology studies the organization of living organisms, and their functioning in their environment, the study of interactions between organisms and their environment being the most difficult.