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Concept Map: Ecology

As can be seen in the graphic that has been created below almost all seperate sectors of ecology have some common focuses, often times not with all other sectors butalways with at least one . I have taken the liberty to express why some of less closely connected sectors share common goals.

commonailty in the way outside factors affect populations

Commonality in that both focus on the prevention of factors that inhibit biodiversity (i.e. pathogens)

Commonality in that both focus on evolution based one the organisms environment

Commonality in interactions with envrionment

Commonality in that both share a specific focus on the behavior of an organism in any given environment

Behavioral Ecology

The study of evolution and its affects on organisms due to ecological occurences

Behavioral Ecology

Adaptive Signicance

Essentially how an organisms behavior and/or adaptations can improve reproduction and survival

Adaptive Signicance

Optimal Foraging Theory

This is the theory that survival is to be favored in animals whose foraging behavior is the most energy efficient.

Territoriality

Territoriality

The behavior in which an organism holds and protects a specific domain that contains some sort of limiting resource, such as mates, food, or shelter.

Reproductive Strategy

The behaviors that an organism exhibits to provide optimal reproductive success

Reproductive Strategy

Ecology

A focus within biology that deals mainly with organisms and their interactions with one another and with the world surrounding them

Ecology

Population Ecology

Population ecology focuses on the population in a particular environment and how they interact with said environment

Population Ecology

Community Ecology

This sector of ecology focuses on the interactions between species and organisms in communities

Community Ecology

Density Independent Factors

These are factors that affect the population sizes due to factors independent of the population size (i.e. Disease, natural disaster).

Density Independent Factors

Density Dependent Factors

Density Dependent Factors

These are factors that affect the population sizes due that are directly dependent on the size of the population (i.e competition for food and resources).

Carrying Capacity

This is the maximum number of a certain species that a ecosystem can indefinitely maintain given its resources.

Carrying Capacity

Ecosystem Ecology

The study of the way non-living (abiotic) members of an ecosystem interact with the living (biotic) members

Landscape Ecology

This is the process of studying the relationship between organisms and their habitat and, furthermore, this information is used to try to build a better relationship between them for the benefit of both parties.

Succession

Succession refers to the complete change in species structure usually due to a natural disaster that destroys what existed there prior.

Succession

Biotic Organisms

The living organisms within an ecosystem such as animals, plants, and other micro-organisms

Biotic Organisms

Abiotic Features

Abiotic features refer to the nonliving members of an ecosystem such as rocks, soil, foliage debris, and chemicals

Disease Ecology

Disease Ecology

The field of ecology that focuses on the way environments and climates affect pathogens and other disease carrying organisms (i.e. paarasites)

Epidemiology

This is the focus of ecology on disease and the pathogens related to it.

Epidemiology

Transmission

This refers to the process of a pathogen transmitting from an infected host into a previously uninfected organism.

Transmission

Zoonotic

These are diseases that can be transferred from animal hosts to domestic animals and humans. Mad cow disease is an example of this.

Zoonotic

Vector Borne Disease

Vector Borne Disease

These are diseases that are transferred to humans, animals, and plants from arthropods (usually mosquitoes).

Physiological Ecology

Physiological Ecology

This focus of ecology is on the way in which the study is on the ways in which an organisms physiology is adapted to its environment

Homeostasis

Homeostasis

The ability for animals to cooridinate and maintain internal stability despite situations that disturb their normal functions

Thermoregulation

Essentially the adaptations and ability for organisms to regulate their body temperatures

Thermoregulation

Conservation Biology

Conservation Biology

This is the sector of biology that focuses on addressing threats to biodiversity in environments all over the world and conserving biodiversity worldwide

Endangered Species

Species that have reduced so much in terms of population size that they are below the minimum viable population limit and are in danger of extinction

Wildlife Preserves

Wildlife Preserves

Protected spaces in which endangered species are allowed to live in the wild with some relative captivity attached for the sake of rebuilding the population

Poaching

Poaching

The act of illegally hunting endnagered or protected animals for sport or for the resources they provide (such as ivory from elephant tusks)

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