Category Archives: Biodiversity

Sydney Cohen – Fire ecology is an extensive and complex topic. It involves many different aspects, from the chemical reactions that cause a flame to burn to the social impacts of large-scale wildfires.

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Harry Cooper – Population ecology is the study of plant, animal, and human populations, and the factors that affect their growth and distribution. Population ecology is a very important field of study because it allows us to better understand how we affect the world and how the world affects us.

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Ilana Stein – For many of us, the word “ecology” brings to mind images of nature, of food webs and pyramids, of how every living thing is interconnected with another. But, the idea of an ecological model has little to do with nature and much to do with health, human behavior and health education.

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Sydney Cohen – Social environmental science is studying how we interact with the environment around us and how a person responds to his or her environment. Social ecologists look at an overall picture of our societal systems and look at how individual collectives and institutions interact with one another.

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Sydney Cohen – The ecological pyramid is a graphical representation of living organisms in an ecosystem’s food chain, providing a way to look at the relationship between different levels of organisms in an ecosystem.

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Sydney Cohen – Regeneration ecology was first officially recognized as its own scientific area in the 1990s. The Society for Ecological Restoration describes ecological restoring as supporting the restoring process of damaged, deteriorated, or destroyed systems.

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Sydney Cohen – It is important to be aware of how your actions affect the environment, but it isn’t always easy. The good news is that there are some simple steps you can take to help protect the planet and make a difference.

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Sydney Cohen – The word ecology is derived from the Greek “oikos” which means home. Ecology, then, is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment in order to maintain a stable system.

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Sydney Cohen – The study of political ecology is the combination of politics, which includes government and institutions, with ecology. It looks at how human activity impacts environments to produce natural resource scarcity or abundance.

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