生态学 （Ecology）课件.ppt

1. the scope of ecology 生態學 (Ecology) 鄭先祐 (Ayo) 國立台南大學 環境與生態學院 Textbook: Fundamentals of Ecology Eugene P. Odum Gary W. Barrett University of Georgia Institute of Ecology / Foreword Fundamentals of Ecology is an icon among biology textbooks – the most influential such work as measured by the number of students recruited into the field as researchers and teachers. Ecology was and remains the discipline that addresses the highest and most complex levels of biological organization. The study of holism and emergence. E. O. Wilson To understand ecology thoroughly would be to understand all of biology, and to be a complete biologist is to be an ecologist. Ecology is now seen as not just a biological but a human science. The present edition can serve as a basic ecology text for college majors. Preface (I) Retains the classic holistic approach More emphasis on a multilevel approach based hierarchical theory More attention to the applications of ecological principles to human predicaments. Preface (II) Chap.1: history Chap.2: ecosystem Chap.3-5: functional components of ecosystem/landscape dynamics Chap.6-11 scale levels of organization Chap.12: quantitative synthesis to the field of ecology Preface (III) Fundamentals of Ecology, first ed., 1953 AIBS 的問卷調查結果(Barrett and Mabry, 2002) Ranked first as the book that had most influenced career training in the biological sciences. Ecology, fully emerged from its roots in the biological sciences (1970) Ecology as the study of Earth as home. Bridge between science and society (the third culture) Preface (IV) Complexity: the bigger picture (Vicsek, 2002) The laws that describe the behavior of a complex system are qualitatively different from those that govern its units. Fundamentals of Ecology emphasis on macroevolution as an extension of traditional evolutionary theory and on self-regulation theory in the development and regulation of complex system. Eugene Odum Eugene Odum (1913-2002), American scientist, pioneering work on