HIS TOOLS:
Here are some of his tools, though the list is not exhaustive: tracer methodology,
spectrometry, colorimetry, chromatography, remote sensing, mathematical modelling,
computer technology
BASIC ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
There are 4 basic principles of ecology”
1.
The system of ecology is huge (ecosystem) and it contains a network of interrelations
of its parts.
2.
These interrelated network is inclusive of a structure that contains both the abiotic
and biotic composition (environment).
3.
The networks present in the ecological system has a control of the energy flow and
also in the flow of nutrients.
4.
Energy from our solar system has a control over the flow of all the nutrient and
energy.
ECOLOGY SEEKS TO EXPLAIN
Life processes and adaptations
Distribution and abundance of organisms
The movement of materials and energy through living communities
The successional development of ecosystems
The abundance and distribution of biodiversity in context of the environment
Emanating from these 4 basic principles are many basic ecological concepts developed in
order to study this complexity: Habitat; Population; Territories; Community; Ecosystem
SCOPE OF ECOLOGY: (coverage)
Ecology has a wide scope of coverage and is significant in many fields such as range, forest
and game managements; agriculture – livestock raising; fish culture; conservation of land and
its products (minerals, soil, vegetation, water); space ecology; problems of increasing
population; pollution; urbanization; town planning; disaster mitigation.
SUBDIVISIONS OF ECOLOGY: There are two artificial divisions AUTECOLOGY and SYNECOLOGY
AUTECOLOGY: This is the study of interrelations of individual organisms with the
environment or environmental physiology or ecophysiology or ecophysiological ecology. It is