Ecology Questions and Answers

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Ecology Questions and Answers 1. Bernhard’s predictions in 1963 that in the following 10 to 20 years Ecology would become a household word were accurate. This assertion is confirmed by the many historical developments that characterized the 1970s and 80s. Around the period, elaborate forms of infrastructure were established. These led to a significant decrease in distances as well as enhanced rates of speed. The advancements also occasioned the establishment of close contacts between individuals, nations, and civilizations. Secondly, the realization of people, countries, and cultures that their existence hugely depends on the coexistence with other parties is another historical development that hugely contributed to ecology's being popular. 2)."Whatever exists outside of a particular creature's home -- the food it is not adapted to, the tree trunk it cannot bore into, the climate it cannot endure -- is quite unnatural to it" (9). What implications does this have for the ecological effects of organisms that are imported from other regions or continents...