What is ecology? and What is Environment?

WHAT IS ECOLOGY?

ECOLOGY is the study of "life at home" with emphasis on "the totality or pattern of relations between organisms and their environment" (Merriam Webster's Collegiate, 10th edition, S.v. "ecology"

Ecology is the science of all the relations of all living organisms to all their environment.(Taylor, 1936)

Ecology is the study of interactions, distribution patterns, and abundance dynamics of organisms at varied scales of resolution.

The study of living organisms in the natural environment.

Ecology basically means the management of the household, or the management of the living space.(Earnst Haekel, 1866)

Ecology is about the economy of nature

Integrative discipline that links physical and biological processes and forms a bridge between the natural sciences and the social sciences(E.P. odum 1977)

Ecology and its domain

Ecology is an interdisciplinary science. It overlaps with many elements of physical and biological sciences.

WHAT IS ENVIRONMENT?

The complete range of external condition under which an organism lives, including physical, chemical, and biological factors, such as temperature, light, the availability of food and water, and the effects of other organisms.

Environment literally means surrounding and everything that effect an organism during its lifetime is collectively known as its environment.

The surrounding of any organism, including the physical world and other organisms

Environment is sum total of water, air and land interrelationships among themselves and also with the human being, other living organisms and property

An environment is all the living and nonliving thing in a place.

"The environment is everything that is not me"(Albert Einstein)

Type of Environment

Environment can be classified into 3 broad types

-Non-Living Components:

Physical and chemical factors

-Living Components:

-Producers

-Consumers

-Decomposers

-Culture (human interaction and well-being

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