A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution.[1] A biophysical environment can vary in scale from microscopic to global in extent. It can also be subdivided according to its attributes. Examples include the marine environment, the atmospheric environment and the terrestrial environment.[2] The number of biophysical environments is countless, given that each living organism has its own environment.
The term environment can refer to a singular global environment in relation to humanity, or a local biophysical environment, e.g. the UK's Environment Agency.
All life that has survived must have adapted to the conditions of its environment. Temperature, light, humidity, soil nutrients, etc., all influence the species within an environment. However, life in turn modifies, in various forms, its conditions. Some long-term modifications along the history of the planet have been significant, such as the incorporation of oxygen to the atmosphere. This process consisted of the breakdown of carbon dioxide by anaerobic microorganisms that used the carbon in their metabolism and released the oxygen to the atmosphere. This led to the existence of oxygen-based plant and animal life, the great oxygenation event.
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The ecosystem of public parks often includes humans feeding the wildlife.
Ecology, a sub-discipline of biology and a part of environmental sciences, is often mistaken as a study of human-induced effects on the environment.
Environmental studies is a broader academic discipline that is the systematic study of the interaction of humans with their environment. It is a broad field of study that includes:
Environmentalism is a broad social and philosophical movement that, in a large part, seeks to minimize and compensate for the negative effect of human activity on the biophysical environment. The issues of concern for environmentalists usually relate to the natural environment with the more important ones being climate change, speciesextinction, pollution, and old growth forest loss.
One of the studies related includes employing Geographic Information Science to study the biophysical environment.[3]
Biophysics is a multidisciplinary study utilizing systems from physics to study biological phenomena.[4] Its scope ranges from a molecular level up and into populations separated by geographical boundaries.[5]
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biophysical, environment, other, uses, environment, biophysical, environment, biotic, abiotic, surrounding, organism, population, consequently, includes, factors, that, have, influence, their, survival, development, evolution, biophysical, environment, vary, s. For other uses see Environment A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival development and evolution 1 A biophysical environment can vary in scale from microscopic to global in extent It can also be subdivided according to its attributes Examples include the marine environment the atmospheric environment and the terrestrial environment 2 The number of biophysical environments is countless given that each living organism has its own environment The term environment can refer to a singular global environment in relation to humanity or a local biophysical environment e g the UK s Environment Agency Contents 1 Life environment interaction 2 Related studies 3 See also 4 ReferencesLife environment interaction EditAll life that has survived must have adapted to the conditions of its environment Temperature light humidity soil nutrients etc all influence the species within an environment However life in turn modifies in various forms its conditions Some long term modifications along the history of the planet have been significant such as the incorporation of oxygen to the atmosphere This process consisted of the breakdown of carbon dioxide by anaerobic microorganisms that used the carbon in their metabolism and released the oxygen to the atmosphere This led to the existence of oxygen based plant and animal life the great oxygenation event Related studies Edit The ecosystem of public parks often includes humans feeding the wildlife Environmental science is the study of the interactions within the biophysical environment Part of this scientific discipline is the investigation of the effect of human activity on the environment Ecology a sub discipline of biology and a part of environmental sciences is often mistaken as a study of human induced effects on the environment Environmental studies is a broader academic discipline that is the systematic study of the interaction of humans with their environment It is a broad field of study that includes The natural environment Built environments Social environmentsEnvironmentalism is a broad social and philosophical movement that in a large part seeks to minimize and compensate for the negative effect of human activity on the biophysical environment The issues of concern for environmentalists usually relate to the natural environment with the more important ones being climate change species extinction pollution and old growth forest loss One of the studies related includes employing Geographic Information Science to study the biophysical environment 3 Biophysics is a multidisciplinary study utilizing systems from physics to study biological phenomena 4 Its scope ranges from a molecular level up and into populations separated by geographical boundaries 5 See also Edit Environment portal Ecology portalList of conservation topics List of environmental books List of environmental issues 2020 in the environment and environmental sciencesReferences Edit Biology online Environment Definition Retrieved 2012 03 15 Kemp David Walker 1998 Environment Dictionary London UK Routledge ISBN 9780415127530 Deng Y X and J P Wilson 2006 The Role of Attribute Selection in GIS Representations of the Biophysical Environment Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96 1 Association of American Geographers Taylor amp Francis Ltd 47 63 JSTOR 3694144 Zhou Huan Xiang 2011 03 02 Q amp A What is biophysics BMC Biology 9 13 doi 10 1186 1741 7007 9 13 ISSN 1741 7007 PMC 3055214 PMID 21371342 Urbanc Brigita 2011 09 20 The Scope and Topics of Biophysics PDF Drexel University Retrieved 2020 07 28 Miller G Tyler 1995 Environmental science California Wadsworth ISBN 0 534 21588 2 McCallum Malcolm L Gwendolynn W Bury 2013 Google search patterns suggest declining interest in the environment Biodiversity and Conservation 22 6 7 1355 1367 doi 10 1007 s10531 013 0476 6 S2CID 15593201 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Biophysical environment amp oldid 1137886664, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
