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EM/MOD - II/Ecology1
E C O L O G Y 
 
ByPratyay GangulyLecturer, CIEM, Kolkata
 
EM/MOD - II/Ecology2
E C O L O G Y 
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Meaning
•Ecology is the study of environmental systems, or as it issometimes called, the economy of nature.•Ecology is usually considered from the perspective of the specificgeographic environment that is being studied at the moment:
tropical rain forest 
,
temperate grassland, arctic tundra,benthicmarine
, and so on.•Thus it might study the population ecology of lions in an Africansavanna, an ecosystems study of a marine benthic environment,global nutrient budgets, and so on•The subject matter of ecology is the entire natural world, including both the living and the non living parts.
 
EM/MOD - II/Ecology3
E C O L O G Y 
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why we want to understandecology
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First 
, since all of us live to some degree in a natural or at least partlynatural ecosystem, then considerable pleasure can be derived bystudying the environment around us. Just as one might learn toappreciate art better through an art history course so too might oneappreciate more the nature around us with a better understanding of ecology.
 Second 
, human economies are in large part based on the exploitationand management of nature. Applied ecology is used every day inforestry, fisheries, range management, agriculture, and so on to provide us with the food and fiber we need.
For example, in Argentina in manycircles there is no difference between ecology and agriculture, which is essentially the ecology of cropsand pastures. 
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