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Ecology
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The study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and the factors and interactions that affect them.
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Aristotle
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Historia animalium
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Herodotus and plato
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Providental ecology
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Graunt and leeuwenhoek
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1662 and 1687, population growth
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Farr
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1843, farr's rule = relationship between the density of a population and the death rate
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Buffon, malthus, quetelet and verhulst
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Population regulation
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Edward Forbes and H.C. Cowles
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Community regulation and succession
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Robert Ross
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Systems analysis.mathematical model of the spread of infectious disease
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Tansley, Clements, and Elton
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Early 1900s. some founders of ecology
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Time when ecology finally seemed important
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1960
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Abiotic components
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Non-living chemical and physical factors (temperature, light, nutrients, water)
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Biotic components
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Living (biological) factors(other organisms, competition, predation)
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Interaction
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Abiotic and biotic components interact, both organisms and environment affect eachother.
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