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Ecology
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Scientific study of interactions of organisms and environmental factors and how these interactions determine the distribution and abundance of organisms
ex Ecology looks at the hydrology and the chemistry of the environment
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Abiotic Factors
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Abiotic Air
non-living aspects of an ecosystem.
Example Air Birds
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Biotic
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Living aspects of the ecosystem
Plants, animals, and Fungi
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Ecologic Levels of organization
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Landscapes
Individuals
Populations
Communities
Ecosystem
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Landscape Ecology
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The matrix that connects populations communities and ecosystems
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Population ecology
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Group of interbreeding individuals
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Community ecology
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Groups of interacting populations
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Ecosystem ecology
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Communality Interactions with abiotic components of the environment
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Which one of these two factors abiotic or biotic can structure the most ecological system?
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Both abiotic and biotic factors contribute to structuring ecological systems. When looking at their importance it is context and scale based answer. A lot of times it can be challenged both ways.
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What is Science?
What does it use to complete its definition?
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Learning the nature of the observable universe- What can be observed from the earth
Natural Laws or rules to explain patterns