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Ecology (disciplines) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (469 words) |
 | Ecology is a broad biological science and can thus be divided into many sub-disciplines using various criteria. |
| Behavioral ecology, which studies the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal behavior, focusing largely at the level of the individual; |
| Population ecology (or autecology), which deals with the dynamics of populations within species, and the interactions of these populations with environmental factors; |
| Applied Historical Ecology (870 words) |
| Applied historical ecology is the use of historical knowledge in the management of ecosystems. |
| Historical ecology encompasses all of the data, techniques, and perspectives from paleoecology; land-use history from archival and documentary research; and long-term ecological research and monitoring extended over decades. |
| One prominent change was the rapid shift of the forest/woodland ecotone upslope by as much as 2 km between 1954 and 1958 (Figure 2), due to the death of drought-stressed ponderosa pine trees (Allen and Breshears 1998). |
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