Ecology
The word ecology comes from Greek " Okas" Means house or surrounding and logos means study or knowledge... So simply ecology can be defined as the study or surrounding animals human being....
Ecology can be defined as a scientific study of relationship of living organisms with each other and with their Environment...
Classification of Ecology
On the basis of nature of study
Autoecology and Synecology
1 Habitat.... A habitat is a place where an organisms makes its home A habitat meets all the environment conditions an organisms needs to survive...
( All habitat are environments but all environment s are not habitat)..
2 Ecosystem...
Structural and functional unit of biosphere costing of community of living being and the physical environment both interacting and exchange material between them...
Producer ---------Consumer----------Decomposers....
Biosphere... The biosphere is the biological components supporting life of earth which includes the lithosphere, Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere.....
3 Ecotone..
An Ecotone is a transition area between two biological communities where two communities meet and integrate......
Difference between Habitat and Niche
Habitat:. A habitat is a area where a species lives and interact with the other factor....
Habitat is a physical place
Habitat is not specific
Habitat consists of numerous niche.
Affecting the temperature rainfall and other abiotic factors....
For eg Desert, ocean, forests, rivers, mountain s, etc... Are example of habitat....
2 Niche
A niche is an ideology of how an organisms or survive in the provided environment condition it is organisms totally way of life..
Niche is an activity performed by organisms
Niche is specific
Niche doesn't contain such conditions
Flow of energy from one organisms to another organisms through ecosystem...
It is a part of habitat only where shelter for living being can be furnished.....
Eg mangrove represents an ecosystem between marine and terrestrial ecosystem..
Biome is very large area of the planet which is classified by the plants and animals that live in it. Temperature soil and amount of light and water helps determine what life exists in a biome, scientists classify biome in many different ways but the five major biome are aquatic, desert, Forest's grasslands tundra... Etc.
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