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    ECOLOGY OF LIFE

    (GROUP 5)

    BY:

    Ralphsan M. Pia
    Denroe S. Buenaventura

    WMSU

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    WESTERN MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY
    What is Ecology?
    • Ecology is a  branch of science, including
    human science, population, community,
    ecosystem, and biosphere. Ecology is the
    study of organisms, the environment and
    how the organisms interact with each other
    and their environment. It is studied at
    various levels, such as organism,
    population, community, biosphere, and
    ecosystem.
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    Biotic and Abiotic Factors
    • The main aim of ecology is to understand
    the distribution of biotic and abiotic factors
    of living things in the environment. The
    biotic and abiotic factors include the living
    and non-living factors and their interaction
    with the environment.

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    Biotic components
    • Biotic components are living factors of an
    ecosystem. A few examples of biotic
    components include bacteria,  animals,
    birds,  fungi, plants, etc.

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    Abiotic components
    • Abiotic components are non-living chemical and
    physical factors of an ecosystem. These
    components could be acquired from the
    atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere. A few
    examples of abiotic components include sunlight,
    soil, air, moisture minerals, and more.
    • Living organisms are grouped into biotic
    components, whereas non-living components like
    sunlight, water, topography are listed under
    abiotic components.
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    Types of Ecology

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    Global Ecology
    • It deals with interactions among earth’s
    ecosystems, land, atmosphere, and
    oceans. It helps to understand the large-
    scale interactions and their influence on
    the planet.

    9
    Landscape Ecology
    • It deals with the exchange of energy,
    materials, organisms, and other products
    of ecosystems. Landscape ecology throws
    light on the role of human impacts on the
    landscape structures and functions.

    10
    Ecosystem Ecology
    • It deals with the entire ecosystem,
    including the study of living and non-living
    components and their relationship with the
    environment. This science research how
    ecosystems work, their interactions, etc.

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    Community Ecology
    • It deals with how community structure is
    modified by interactions among living
    organisms. Ecology community is made
    up of two or more populations of different
    species living in a particular geographic
    area.

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    Population Ecology
    • It deals with factors that alter and impact the genetic composition and
    the size of the population of organisms. Ecologists are interested in
    fluctuations in the size of a population, the growth of a population and
    any other interactions with the population.
    • In biology, a population can be defined as a set of individuals of the
    same species living in a given place at a given time. Births and
    immigration are the main factors that increase the population and
    death and emigration are the main factors that decrease the
    population.
    • Population ecology examines the population distribution and density.
    Population density is the number of individuals in a given volume or
    area. This helps in determining whether a particular species is in
    endanger or its number is to be controlled and resources to be
    replenished.

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    Organismal Ecology
    • Organismal ecology is the study of an individual
    organism’s behaviour, morphology, physiology, etc.
    in response to environmental challenges. It looks at
    how individual organisms interact with biotic and
    abiotic components. Ecologists research how
    organisms are adapted to these non-living and living
    components of their surroundings.
    • Individual species are related to various adaptations
    like physiological adaptation,  morphological
    adaptation, and behavioural adaptation.

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    Molecular Ecology
    • The study of ecology focuses on the
    production of proteins and how these
    proteins affect the organisms and their
    environment. This happens at the molecular
    level.
    • DNA forms the proteins that interact with
    each other and the environment. These
    interactions give rise to some complex
    organisms.
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    Importance of Ecology
    • Conservation of Environment
    • Resource Allocation
    • Energy Conservation
    • Eco-Friendliness

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    Examples of Ecology
    • Human Ecology
    • Niche Construction

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    Human Ecology
    • It focuses on the relationship between
    humans and the environment. It
    emphasizes the impact human beings
    have on the environment and gives
    knowledge on how we can improve
    ourselves for the betterment of humans
    and the environment.

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    Niche Construction
    • It deals with the study of how organisms
    alter the environment for the benefit of
    themselves and other living beings. For
    eg, termites create a 6 feet tall mound and
    at the same time feed and protect their
    entire population.

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    THANK YOU!! 

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