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Three
laws of Ecology are based on the laws of thermodynamics.
- Everything
has to go somewhere.
So there is no away
to throw to!
- You
can never merely do one thing.
So every action has
an equal and opposite reaction!
- There
is a paradox about free lunches; although there is no such
thing as a free lunch, our earth in this universe may be the ultimate
free lunch!
So, there are ecological consequences on earth that limit what people can achieve over time.

A pine forest living today is the descendent of vegetative associations thta may have been selected for by the grazing habits of dinosaurs, millions of years ago [coeveolution].
The three laws of thermodynamics are:
- The amount of energy in the universe (a closed system) is constant.
- Every
conversion or transformation of energy (decay of order) from one form into another is always inefficient because
it is accompanied by increased randomness, we call this increasing disorder,
and in terms of energy that amount
of random, disorder is measured as heat.
- The eventual heat death of the universe occurs because, as energy is transformed,
heat accumulates until every conversion finally produces more heat or
infrared radiation of such a low frequency and long waves, too disorderly
to do any work.



Ecology (defined)
Ecosystem
Round River
place
habitat
biotic community
sunshine
Ecosystem services
Ecological citizenship
Ecological
Design
Ecological
Imagination
Ecological
Integrity
Ecological
Planning
Ecological
problem solving
Ecological
thought, development of
Ecological
values inhering in land
Ecological
model
biological
community is called a biocenose
habitat
natural
wealth of habitats, or settings
Symbiotic associations are common.
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Ecology
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