ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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conservationist
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ecologist
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ecology
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economic development
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Detailed explanation-1: -An ecologist studies the relationship between living things and their habitats.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ecologists study these relationships among organisms and habitats of many different sizes, ranging from the study of microscopic bacteria growing in a fish tank, to the complex interactions between the thousands of plant, animal, and other communities found in a desert. Ecologists also study many kinds of environments.
Detailed explanation-3: -Eugene Odum: The father of modern ecology-UGA Today.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of the first ecologists whose writings survive may have been Aristotle or perhaps his student, Theophrastus, both of whom had interest in many species of animals and plants. Theophrastus described interrelationships between animals and their environment as early as the 4th century BC.
Detailed explanation-5: -Sir Arthur Tansley. “Arthur George Tansley (1871–1955) was one of the most eminent ecologists of the 20th century and was key to the discipline’s professionalization. […] In 1935, he introduced what would become one of his science’s most fundamental and influential terms, the ‘ecosystem.