Ecology

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the subject of ecology. According to the paper, ecology can be defined as the study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms, and how such distributions are affected by interactions between organisms and their environment. The paper reports that ecology could be said to be the core science that impacts our knowledge of environmentalism.

From the Paper:

"One of the fundamental shifts within ecology in the modern era is the inclusion of human ecology within the discipline. While human ecology itself has been included within the study of ecology for well over half a century, it only gained prominence in the late 1970s. Human ecology deals with how humans as organisms affect the environment as well as other organisms. This field is perhaps the most important development to environmental science in the past century precisely because now we have a much deeper understanding of how and why humanity influences the natural environment around us, deeply contributing to our awareness and knowledge of environmental damage and the harmful affects of pollution. Overall, it is evident that ecology has expanded at a tremendous pace because it has increased the scope that the field itself examines. By including human ecology as one of its disciplines, ecology now takes on significance not only as a scientific field but in both economic and political terms as well."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Jiangyu, Zhang. "China Daily." Green GDP fine tunes growth to ecology. 6 June 2004. 12 Jan. 2007 <http://www.chinadaily.net/english/doc/2004-06/24/ content_342292.htm>.
• Charles C. Davis. "Statistics in Ecology" Ecology, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Jul., 1962), pp. 581-582What is ecology. July 2006. 12 Jan. 2007 <http://www.barrameda.com.ar/ ecology/>.
• What is Ecology. Winter 2007. 12 Jan. 2007 <http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/sci_ed/grade10/ecology/introduction.htm>.

More papers on Ecology:

• Comparison Essay # 122133 : "Deep Ecology vs Shallow Ecology"
• Term Paper # 134327 : "Arturo Escobar and Political Ecology"
• Analytical Essay # 136550 : "Ecology in Literature"
• Essay # 32459 : "'Deep Ecology" and Anthropocentrism"

APA Citation:

MLA Citation: