期刊名称:Rural Landscapes: Society Environment History
电子版ISSN:2002-0104
出版年度:2014
卷号:1
期号:1
页码:1-4
DOI:10.16993/rl.aa
出版社:Stockholm University Press
摘要:Ecology is usually defined as the study of relationships between organisms and their environment. On basic ecology courses, students learn that environmental factors may be composed of other living organisms, e.g. predators, or they may be abiotic, e.g. water. Resources constitute a special category of environmental factors as they are consumed by the organisms and thereby, at least temporarily, made unavailable to others. Resources are ultimately in limited supply, causing competition within or between species. Competition is an interaction often considered to be of paramount importance in ecological systems.
关键词:domesticated landscapes; eco-evolutionary dynamics; niche construction theory