Title: What is the difference between ecology, environment, and ecosystem? - Quora
Headings: What is the difference between ecology, environment, and ecosystem?
What is the difference between ecology, environment, and ecosystem?
Content: Environment: The environment is the set of circumstances surrounding an organism. Environment includes all elements, factors , and conditions that have some impact on growth and development of certain organism. Environment includes both biotic and abiotic factors that have influence on observed organism. Ecology is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their natural environment. An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro-organisms (biotic factors) in an area functioning together with all of the non-living physical (abiotic) factors of the environment. An environment is the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences, such as the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time. Source: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.423857864309214.114333.423854120976255&type=3
Rohini Uttam
, M.sc from enviornmental science
Answered 1 year ago · Upvoted by
Hany Alassaf Almotairy
, Ph. D Environmental Science & Biosystems Engineering, University of Arizona (2019) · Author has 55 answers and 198.8K answer views
At first we have to understand the concept of environment because within an environment only we get the concept of ecology and ecosystem.