Emergence of Ecology
Emergence of Ecology
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4 Apex community reached in process of plant succession 6 Complex of biotic and abiotic factors in a given area 10 Woman who publicized ecology in America (3 wds) 16 Botanist who defined vegetation as a plant association 17 Plants that occupy a given area 18 British biologist who defined the ecosystem 19 Bacteria and fungi that break down organic compounds |
1 Greek root word for ecology 2 American ecologist for whom nature was a homeostatic system 3 Ecological disaster on the Great Plains in the 1930s (2 wds) 4 Botanist who thought of ecology as a complex organism 5 Plants that use the sun to synthesize complex chemicals 7 Animals that feed on plants 8 System in which energy is transferred from plants to animals (2 wds) 9 German biologist who coined "ecology" 10 Surroundings 11 Ecologist who proposed a land ethic 12 Random series of individual events 13 Amount of living matter in a particular ecosystem 14 Process by which one plant community develops into another 15 Locality in which animals and plants are found |