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He pioneered the field of taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms

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Carl von Linne

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He coined the term Ecology back in 1869.

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Earnst Haeckel

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He is considered as one of the first ecologists who was interested in the study of plants and animals.

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Aristotle

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He coined the term ecosystem and because of this ecology became the science of ecosystems.

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Arthur Tansley

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He published the book “Idea for Plant Geography” and he was considered as the father of ecology.

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Alexander von Humboldt

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He proposed the theory of “Natural Selection” and the theory that organisms change over time because of their inherited traits and characters.

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Darwin

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He first defined the term biosphere from the Greek “bios” and “sphaira”.

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Eduard Suess

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He introduced the discipline of biogeography in 1895.

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Eugen Warming

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redefined the term biosphere in his book The Biosphere.

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Vladimir Vernadsky

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In 1953 the first book of Ecology was published and it became a university course by

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Eugene and Howard Odum

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The term Gaia, or the idea that the whole Earth is one living entity, was introduced in 1970 by

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James Lovelock

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In 1971 ______ launched a program called Man and Biosphere to increase the awareness of humans and nature.

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UNESCO

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The study of behavioral interactions between individuals within populations and communities, usually in an evolutionary context.

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Behavioral Ecology

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The study of the processes that affect the distribution and abundance of animal and plant populations.

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Demecology

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The study of the organization and functioning of communities, which are assemblages of interacting populations of the species living within a particular area or habitat.

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Synecology

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The integrated study of living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems and their interactions within an ecosystem framework.

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Ecosystem Ecology

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The science of the application of ecology to contemporary problems in managing our natural resources.

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Applied Ecology

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the branch of ecology and evolutionary biology that deals with the preservation and management of biodiversity and natural resources.

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Conservation Ecology

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he branch of ecology that focuses on the roles, or functions, that species play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur.

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functional ecology

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The applied science that studies ecological processes applied to agricultural production systems.

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agrocultury

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The scientific discipline concerned with natural processes involving fire in an ecosystem and the ecological effects, the interactions between fire and the abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem, and the role as an ecosystem process.

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fire ecology

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The study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

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Biogeography

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The study of the effects of toxic chemicals on biological organisms, especially at the population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels.

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Ecotoxicology

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It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers the evolutionary histories of species and the interactions between them.

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evolutionary ecology

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The study of living things in the ocean and how they interact with their environment. It is an interdisciplinary science that combines biology with physical sciences.

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marine ecology

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The study of the interactions of microorganisms with their environment, each other, and plant and animal species.

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microbial ecology

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This discipline uses principles of engineering, soil science, biology, and chemistry to develop solutions to environmental problems.

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enviromental Engineering

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It is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic research addressing the interdependence and coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems.

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Ecological Economics

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The study of relationships between people and their environment, often the interdependence of people, collectives, and institutions.

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Human Ecology

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The study of the interactions between human and non-human nature in different cultures.

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Ethnoecology

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It is mainly concerned with reconstructing past biota, populations, communities, landscapes, environments, and ecosystems from available geological and biological evidence.

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Paleoecology

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The study of humans in cities, of nature in cities, and of the coupled relationships between humans and nature

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urban ecology

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It encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.

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natural enviroment

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It is where humans have fundamentally transformed landscapes such as urban settings and agricultural land conversion.

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built enviromental

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It is the broadest division of Earth's land surface, based on distributional patterns of terrestrial organisms.

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biographical realms

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Cultural environment is the study of the adaptation of a culture to a specific environment and how changes in that environment lead to changes in that specific culture.

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cultural ecology