Paguio, Emilito F.

GEC 202 People and Earth’s Ecosystem

BSN 3B Code: 27855

APPLYING UNDERSTANDING
Instruction: Answer the following questions below. Use 10 sentences at maximum.
1. If you will be given a chance to travel back time, who among the people mentioned that
contributed to the history of ecology would you want to meet? What lesson do you want to
learn from him and why? Explain.
= If I had the chance to travel back time, I would like to meet Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linne)
pioneered the field of taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms. The lesson that
I would want to learn from is what made him interested in his line of profession. In the winter of
1730/31 Linnaeus continued working hard on botany in Uppsala. In particular, he had grown
dissatisfied with the way plant species were classified. He began making notes about how he
could improve this. Carolus Linnaeus dressed as a native Sami in Lapland. The plant in his right
hand is the Linnaea borealis, named in his honor. This was his favorite plant of all. In 1732 he
was awarded funding for an expedition to Lapland, in the far north of Sweden. From May to
October that year the 25-year-old botany lecturer traveled 1250 miles (2000 km) in Lapland,
making observations of the native plants and birds. He also made geological notes. Linnaeus was
the first person to place humans in the primate family and to describe bats as mammals rather than
birds. Linnaeus did not categorize humans alongside apes with any idea of an evolutionary link.
He did it with the same reasoning he used to categorize all life, which was similarities he
identified between species. Linnaeus was one of the founders of the science of ecology,
describing the relationship between living organisms and their environments. His idea of going on
expeditions to study nature and gather specimens inspired Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel
Wallace to go on expeditions that led to their theories of evolution by natural selection. He also
invented index cards. He did this in response to his ever-growing lists of species which required a
cataloging method that was easily expandable and easy to reorganize.

2. If you will be an ecologist, what program or activity would you want to do?
=If I will be an ecologist, the program/activity that I would do is Reforestation drones (Biocarbon
Engineering). BioCarbon Engineering aims to be the solution against deforestation and to protect
humans against the risk of hydro geological instability: they have the ability to plant new trees in the
most quick and efficient way by using drones. BioCarbon Engineering is an ecosystem restoration
company that came up with the solution that is faster, simple and able to scale up ecosystem
restoration dramatically by using the latest technology which is drones. BioCarbon Engineering
technology is enabling tree planting cheaper, faster and on a scale that has not been previously
possible. The company’s approach to ecosystem restoration is driven by science and data that enables
decision-makers to choose the most appropriate species for their locations. Our innovative technology
works for challenging, hard to reach areas like mangrove landscapes, where muddy tidal zone terrain
presents numerous challenges to traditional planting techniques. The present methods will take at least
200 years to restore the degraded land, and we don’t have that time to fight climate change.