Ecology
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- Ecology, œcology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how the distribution and abundance are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes both physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors such as insolation (sunlight), climate, and geology, as well as the other organisms that share its habitat. The term oekologie was coined in 1866 by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel the word is derived from the Greek οικος (oikos, "household") and λόγος (logos, "study"); therefore "ecology" means the "study of the household [of nature]".
The word "ecology" is often used in common parlance as a synonym for the natural environment or environmentalism. Likewise "ecologic" or "ecological" is often taken in the sense of environmentally friendly.
Contents
Introduction
Definition of Ecology
Scope of Ecology
History of Ecology
Fundamental principles of Ecology
Pedagogical approach
Pedagogical approach in Ecology
Pedagocical approach in Olpc Context
In the classroom
Out the classroom
Pertinents links, Free Software and Open-content Textbooks in Ecology
(Constructivist or socioconstructivist approach)
Wikimedia Projects
Wikispecies : Wikispecies is a project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation with a great potential. It is meant to become an open, free directory of species. In English, Spanish, French, Arabic and others language.
Ecology in Wikibooks: Basic Ecology - A Guide to the Study of Ecosystems is an open-content pedagogic textbook. To find open-content textbooks in other language go to Wikibooks main page
Others Projects
Le Monde de Darwin The study of an animal of the pupils or students's ecosystem. In French only (from Canada)
