ECOLOGIST

DAY IN THE LIFE OF ECOLOGIST

• What I do is going around seeing what the effects are from what we have to the environment and the living organisms living in the environment.

THINGS NEEDED

• Fordham university
• Courses needed are, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Aquatic Biology,Conservation Biology, and Environmental Biology.

FACTS

• An average Ecologists make 30k-60k a year a few make 100k.
• Working hours of ecologists depend on the season.

FACTS 2

• You need a undergraduate or postgraduate degree

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• Some of the most important understandings of ecology came about as late as the 1700s

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• Due to the way its disciplines intersect, it's hard to pinpoint when the study of ecology began.

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• Later researchers began to observe and theorize on the planet's impact on living organisms with concepts like adaptation and evolution.

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• The term ecology was first coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866.

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• The human element cannot be removed from ecology, as human behaviors are understood to make a tremendous and irreparable impact on ecosystems.

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• Ecologists must understand an area's biodiversity, its habitats and niches, biomes and biospheres, and more in order to understand how an ecosystem builds itself.

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• Ecology encompasses all living things, from single-cellular and acellular organisms, through to the most complex of all living creatures.

FACTS 10

• It is a hard job itself