Ecology as a Systemic Science
1 Prof.,
PhD, Full member of Academy of Agricultural and Foresty
Sciences from Romania Gheorghe Ionescu-Sisești ,
Bucharest, Romania
Abstract. The work
discusses the two revolutions which took place in the study of the living
world, both caused by a change of vision concerning the way this world is
organized. The first revolution started when scientists became aware of the
fact that organisms were not isolated, but lived in communities occupying a
nonliving environment. The second revolution came with the recognition of the
organization of life in systems of different sizes, integrated one in another,
into a hierarchy which comprises them all. The place and the role of ecology in
this hierarchy are specified; a definition of ecology, consistent with the
systemic approach, is proposed.
Keywords:
revolutions
in the study of the living world, ecology as a science of the hierarchy of
living systems.
DOI https://doi.org/10.56082/annalsarscibio.2023.1.7
Abstract
Article Volume 12 No 1 2023