Ecology

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The ecology is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their environment.

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Scope

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Ecology is usually considered a branch of biology, the general science that studies living organisms. Organisms can be studied at many different levels, to cells, to individuals and finally at the level of populations, communities, and ecosystems, to the biosphere as a whole;

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Disciplines of ecology

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I'ts a broad discipline comprising many sub-disciplines. A common, broad classification, moving from lowest to highest complexity, where complexity is defined as the number of entities and processes in the system under study, is:

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• Ecophysiology
• Behavioral ecology
• Population ecology
• Community ecology
• Ecosystem ecology
• Systems ecology
• Landscape ecology
• Evolutionary ecology
• Political ecology

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Credits;

• Evolutionary Ecology
• Ecology