Ecology
According to Southwick (1976), the ecosystem that do not contain all the four basic components, i.e., abiotic substance, producers, consumers, decomposers re called incomplete ecosystem. Example- Abyssal depth of sea and caves lack producers but contain only consumers and decomposers.
Ecology has been sub-divided into different fields so as to understand the subject in a more profitable way. Ecology can be commonly divided into animal ecology and plant ecology. However, two major subdivisions were preferred by ecologists. The whole subject was divided into autecology and synecology. Autecology deals with the study of individual species whereas [...]
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Ecology is one of the main divisions of biology, the other two being morphology and physiology. The emphasis in morphology is on how organisms are made, in physiology on how they function, and in ecology, on how they live. These divisions overlap broadly. To appreciate fully the structure of an organ, one needs to know [...]
Ecology is a distinct science because it is a body of knowledge not similarly organized in any other division of biology; because it uses a special set of techniques and procedures; and because it has a unique point of view. The essence of this science is a comprehensive understanding of the import of these phenomena: [...]
The ecological niche is an important concept of community structure. The niche of any species includes all the attributes of an animal’s lifestyle: where it looks for food, what it eats, where it nests, and what conditions of temperature and moisture it requires. Theoretically, competition results when the niches of two species overlap. Although the [...]
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