Adaptation & Natural Selection

Ecology is the study of

Home;earth

Working definition of ecology

Scientific study of the processes regulating the distribution and abundance of organisms & the interactions among them; the study of how these organisms in turn mediate the transport & transformation of energy & matter in the biosphere

ecology can effect

the movement & matter energy

Example of movement of matter and energy

(predator eating prey) energy movement into the predator (movement from one energy to another in the food chain)

Why are is the study that McAurthor did on the warblers important

he found that 5 different species of warblers utilize the same tree by each using different parts of the tree

competitive exclusion principle

2 or more species cannot coexist indefinitely on the same limiting resource (one species will outcompete the other)

what is the only way to get around competitive exclusion

to modify how the organism uses the same resource