Lecture 01
Intro to Ecology
Ecology – What is it?
• From:
– Oikos (Greek)
– Logos
• Study of ‘the study of interaction of
organisms with one another and their
environment
• Involves understanding of
– biotic factors (‘biology’)
– Abiotic factors- things like?
Basic properties of Living Things
Classifying the Diversity of Life: Taxonomy
Three domains
Six Kingdoms
Do kings play chess on fine grained sand?
Species:
Common name vs. Scientific name
Honey bee
Apis metilifera or Apis metilifera
How we know what we know: scientific
method
Observation
Question
Hypothesis
Experiment
accept/reject hypothesis
Theory: What we know
deductive reasoning
inductive reasoning