What Is Global Ecology?

Although many scientists study environmental problems at the population, community and
ecosystem levels, there are some environmental problems that are even larger in scale and can
influence the whole planet. For these types of problems, the field of global ecology would be used to
investigate answers. Global ecology is the study of the interactions among the Earth's ecosystems,
land, atmosphere and oceans. Global ecology is very important because it is used to understand
large scale interactions and how they influence the behavior of the entire planet, including the earth's
responses to future changes.