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August 22, 2002
A: FROM MENTOR AMY MCMILLAN. FOR BIO. CLICK
HERE.
Rebecca, an ecologist studies the interrelationships of
organisms and
their relationship with the environment. A biologist studies
living
organisms and systems. The 2 are quite close but the major
difference is
that ecologists are interested in relationships and biologists
are more
interested in individual organisms. Of course, you can't really
study
individual organisms without taking into account the relationship
it has
with other organisms and environments ... and ecologists really
know
biology and biologists really know ecology. Wildlife biologists
and
ecologists are interested in wild organisms and environments
(not urban
or agricultural life, for example). Wildlife biology jobs
are often to
study particular organisms in the wild while wildlife ecologist
are
often looking at landscape-level issues, like interactions
of plants and
animals in a wild area...
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