Ecology: Crash Course History of Science #38

We’ve explored the origins of modern biology, the earth sciences, and even the sciences of outer space. Now it’s time to put these disciplines together. It's Ecology time!!!
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  • @RangerRuby
    @RangerRuby5 жыл бұрын

    Crash Course: *The Savior of all High School Students*

  • @zidani.s6712

    @zidani.s6712

    5 жыл бұрын

    Indeed

  • @bluejedi723

    @bluejedi723

    5 жыл бұрын

    I would not have survived my college world history class and 2 required psychology courses without crash course.

  • @eaterdrinker000

    @eaterdrinker000

    5 жыл бұрын

    I graduated from high school way back in the pre-9/11 era, but I still watch these vids to help keep myself from getting stupider.

  • @95Emink
    @95Emink5 жыл бұрын

    This randomly showed up in my recommended videos and I'm so grateful! I've missed crash course so much and as a master student in marine ecology I enjoy learning more about the history of my subject

  • @Pocketwatchla
    @Pocketwatchla5 жыл бұрын

    I'm a first year PhD student studying for my qualifying exam in a little over a month, this was an amazing review of my Classical Ecology course last semester! Thank you so much!

  • @RangerRuby
    @RangerRuby5 жыл бұрын

    Hey Crash Course! I would just like to state a tiny thing that was wrong. At around 5:30 you said that Teddy Roosevelt created the NPS, but the NPS was created in 1916 and TR was president in 1901-1908, therefore the NPS was created by President Woodrow Wilson, not Teddy. Although he didn't create the NPS, Theodore was a big conservationist creating nearly 5 new National Parks during his presidency. Sorry, the National Park Nerd in me came out and I just wanted to let you guys know!

  • @planetpeterson2824

    @planetpeterson2824

    5 жыл бұрын

    He did dedicate the first national monument, Devil's Tower... but yes you're right.

  • @Lry696

    @Lry696

    5 жыл бұрын

    Teddy also had part in the start of the United States Forest Service

  • @THEO-np1fv

    @THEO-np1fv

    5 жыл бұрын

    my boi you are damn right, didnt even pay attention to these

  • @PeaceEcho_

    @PeaceEcho_

    5 жыл бұрын

    E

  • @BThings
    @BThings5 жыл бұрын

    What if the Earth were just a big, sophisticated computer, and we were all part of an outrageously complex program designed to calculate the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything!?! 😉 (Sorry, just felt compelled to bring-up _Hitchhiker's_ for a second.)

  • @camiloiribarren1450
    @camiloiribarren14505 жыл бұрын

    The study of the ecosystem and how taking one element out or inserting an invading species changes the entire system. Thanks, Hank

  • @gardenhead92
    @gardenhead925 жыл бұрын

    Crash Course Ecology was the first Crash Course series I ever watched. I binged the whole series in one coffee-fueled night. This brings back fond memories :)

  • @bennolee348
    @bennolee3485 жыл бұрын

    This has been my favorite series yet

  • @seleneescobarramirez2059
    @seleneescobarramirez20595 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video. Thanks for upload these contents, following you guys!

  • @ihorabsent1280
    @ihorabsent12805 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for great course! You not only show the history of science but also tell how our world changes with effort of different people. It is inspiring!

  • @mustardsfire22
    @mustardsfire225 жыл бұрын

    Communities all the way down.

  • @PhilipRhoadesP
    @PhilipRhoadesP5 жыл бұрын

    Great episode!

  • @ZoologistMohsin
    @ZoologistMohsin5 жыл бұрын

    Impressive and digestive way of Presentation. Fan of this Channel. Trying to reach the level soon.

  • @hansypants
    @hansypants5 жыл бұрын

    I don't take bio anymore but I still enjoy watching these

  • @concernedcitizen9014

    @concernedcitizen9014

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hello dad

  • @kaylacumming1609

    @kaylacumming1609

    5 жыл бұрын

    yeah same here :)

  • @joostvanrens

    @joostvanrens

    5 жыл бұрын

    Go home Dad, you're drunk.

  • @Teo117
    @Teo117 Жыл бұрын

    Another master piece. I'm glad to learn.

  • @gabrielalopez3746
    @gabrielalopez37465 жыл бұрын

    This is my Biology's Class topic😎💓

  • @qqq_Peace
    @qqq_Peace8 ай бұрын

    Amazing summary of the history of ecology! As an ecology phd, I learned a lot!

  • @CamelDance
    @CamelDance5 жыл бұрын

    This explains so much about how the offices of the different research groups are located vis a vis each other at my uni

  • @tatyana5692
    @tatyana56925 жыл бұрын

    yes thank you for the ecology representation, i feel like people treat us like we are a joke : (

  • @earthhubs8337
    @earthhubs83375 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the history course of ecology. A good summary.

  • @gato-junino
    @gato-junino5 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting!

  • @oldmikie
    @oldmikie4 жыл бұрын

    Nice work

  • @Dayglodaydreams
    @Dayglodaydreams5 жыл бұрын

    CC Systems Theory (and why it matters).

  • @ShaedeReshka
    @ShaedeReshka5 жыл бұрын

    Awesome episode! I've chimed in a few times to critique or comment or nit pick, but I have nothing really but praise for this episode. It's a good overview. Looks like there's going to be another one. Hoping to see some mention of the idea of a food web (or the introduction of tropic models as a term), which this episode danced around but didn't quite have time for. It's a little on the philosophy side, but a mention on the limitations and drawbacks of conservation ecology and some of the new alternative ideas would be cool. And, of course, because I'm formally trained in this subject and heavily biased, a discussion on the difference between the cyclical nature of natural systems as opposed to the linear operations of human systems and the inevitable conflict between these two would knock my socks off. I know it's already made, though, and I'm sure it's going to be good even if it doesn't say exactly what I might have.

  • @NahJitTrippin
    @NahJitTrippin5 жыл бұрын

    Great video, Keep up the good work Crash Course :)

  • @shervonnefrancis396
    @shervonnefrancis3965 жыл бұрын

    Even though I don't study Ecology, I study English. I know I'm going to love this series

  • @chloebutler8438

    @chloebutler8438

    5 жыл бұрын

    Considering you study English, that was not a very well formed sentence.

  • @shervonnefrancis396

    @shervonnefrancis396

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@chloebutler8438 Amm that was informal writing. And I don't have to please you. That was me commenting on my favorite KZreadrs' channel

  • @seabass1872
    @seabass18725 жыл бұрын

    I make my own dinosaur documentaries. They sort of deal with ecosystems but they also connect with the Jurassic park story.

  • @sadatahmmed7928
    @sadatahmmed79285 жыл бұрын

    Really helped with my school work. "Hank the best"

  • @MakeMeThinkAgain
    @MakeMeThinkAgain5 жыл бұрын

    Well done, CrashCourse.

  • @icybeesting
    @icybeesting5 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff, I feel proud to know that I study in the school Odum founded.

  • @unleashingpotential-psycho9433
    @unleashingpotential-psycho94335 жыл бұрын

    Ecology is a great subject to take in school! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @shinigami1357
    @shinigami13575 жыл бұрын

    seeing this title and wanting to beco,e am ecologist when i "grow up" is really exciting

  • @kaylacumming1609
    @kaylacumming16095 жыл бұрын

    I love learning about science it makes me feel better when I learn more about Charles Darwin :)

  • @allenc.2436
    @allenc.24365 жыл бұрын

    Hello Crash Course, I have a question: Will this History of Science include Social Sciences or only Hard Sciences?

  • @heliosphaeresonnen_wind_ki5720
    @heliosphaeresonnen_wind_ki57205 жыл бұрын

    i want a humboldt-episode! please please!

  • @yenalejandraaguilera1033
    @yenalejandraaguilera10335 жыл бұрын

    Excelente question! !why don't we have more pics about esrth from space!!!!????

  • @skeletor3703
    @skeletor37035 жыл бұрын

    Hank you should visit Grigore Antipas muzeum ^^

  • @bx8321
    @bx83215 жыл бұрын

    How dare you speak about the origins of ecology without mentioning Alexander von Humboldt! He inspired both Darwin and Haeckel greatly :(

  • @TheFACproductions

    @TheFACproductions

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes thank you!! I was just about to post that! It's a pity his name is largely forgotten these days even when he influenced so many others back in his day

  • @heliosphaeresonnen_wind_ki5720

    @heliosphaeresonnen_wind_ki5720

    5 жыл бұрын

    yeeees, humboldt! he was amazing!

  • @88wolfeyes

    @88wolfeyes

    5 жыл бұрын

    Right!! So disappointed to see he hasn't been mentioned once in this entire series!! :(

  • @chargingbig4317
    @chargingbig43175 жыл бұрын

    It's a small detail but I'd argue that the field of ecology started earlier than the Cold War with the rise of rangeland management in the western states and territories after the tragedy of the commons lead to the Taylor Grazing Act in 1932. Before then we had the likes of Aldo Leopold (shout out to mah boy) and Gifford Pinchot investigating and observing how anthropogentic use influenced the ecology of an area. The Taylor Grazing Act created a field of employment where there were people specifically dedicated to balancing use and function on a landscape, really kick starting the field of ecology in my opinion. This did expand during the cold war era, however, when the Multiple Use Act was passed in 1960, the Rangeland Improvement Act, and the creation of NEPA.

  • @talitasampaio3855
    @talitasampaio38555 жыл бұрын

    ecology is fascinating!

  • @poab
    @poab5 жыл бұрын

    Yall need to get a sturdy desk.

  • @henrybartholomewdinglenut
    @henrybartholomewdinglenut5 жыл бұрын

    Hi, I would be so happy if you could tell me which program do you use for creating your videos animations, I think they are amazing. Could you do that? Thanks, I think that what you do is amazing.

  • @necko2529
    @necko25295 жыл бұрын

    Go Dawgs!!!

  • @greensteve9307
    @greensteve93075 жыл бұрын

    Disappointed at how USA-centric all your examples are, e.g. national parks, but as an Aussie studying a Masters of Ecology, this was a great episode.

  • @Red-in-Green
    @Red-in-Green4 жыл бұрын

    BIOGEOCHEM IS MY FOCUS!

  • @lucash8858
    @lucash88585 жыл бұрын

    No mention of Charles Elton?

  • @mayabelikin4701
    @mayabelikin47014 жыл бұрын

    4:12 I see what you did there with the just a theory.

  • @kau910
    @kau9105 жыл бұрын

    Time for ecology 😍😎

  • @experimentalpossum
    @experimentalpossum11 ай бұрын

    Not only did Odum teach at UGA, he founded the Odum School of Ecology to make ecology an independent form of study!!! Source: I got my degree there :)

  • @am.perronace
    @am.perronace4 жыл бұрын

    You quoted haeckel without ever talking about Alexander Von Humbold, the scientist that Haeckel was referring to when he created the term and also the scientist that inspired Darwin to go on his world adventure...

  • @PeaceEcho_
    @PeaceEcho_5 жыл бұрын

    Oh

  • @jabingox772
    @jabingox7725 жыл бұрын

    The noosphere idea was founded by Pierre de teilhard chardin. Him and his buddy henri burgsen That idea is interesting

  • @PacifistDungeonMaster
    @PacifistDungeonMaster5 жыл бұрын

    IT IS ECOLOGY DAY, MY DUDES

  • @Dayglodaydreams
    @Dayglodaydreams5 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure Heckel (or Hekel) was more than a hype-man.

  • @peterdevido8836
    @peterdevido88364 жыл бұрын

    Google Murray Bookchin

  • @titlespree
    @titlespree5 жыл бұрын

    Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

  • @micah1658

    @micah1658

    5 жыл бұрын

    They can change other people's minds.

  • @pendlera2959

    @pendlera2959

    5 жыл бұрын

    People who change their minds a lot tend not to accomplish much, either.

  • @beastonea
    @beastonea5 жыл бұрын

    What happened to crash courses intro?

  • @dystopiaeatsmoney
    @dystopiaeatsmoney5 жыл бұрын

    Go check out Peter Joseph.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un5 жыл бұрын

    Ecology time? I thought it was pizza time

  • @Shifty4L
    @Shifty4L5 жыл бұрын

    Chaos theory?

  • @Dayglodaydreams
    @Dayglodaydreams5 жыл бұрын

    CC Clemens?

  • @EmpressoftheLoneIslands
    @EmpressoftheLoneIslands5 жыл бұрын

    So.... will we get a history of Paleontology? Since we skipped it as an episode here, how about an entire series... Crash Course Paleontology!

  • @connerfields4753
    @connerfields47535 жыл бұрын

    Great Episode. Are you going to do Social Engineering?

  • @tapelessmocha1252
    @tapelessmocha12525 жыл бұрын

    Wassup

  • @bakheg6153
    @bakheg61535 жыл бұрын

    Great channel 👍655👍👍👍👍👍

  • @Milotic100
    @Milotic1005 жыл бұрын

    Correction: soil is living.

  • @patriciajhoannaglori4453
    @patriciajhoannaglori44535 жыл бұрын

    I'm here for a quiz. :3

  • @lindavilmaole5003
    @lindavilmaole50034 жыл бұрын

    Earth System Science: is this science that could answer the question "how does the earth uphold its life sustaining mechanisms?"

  • @reysiejaycuares5289

    @reysiejaycuares5289

    4 жыл бұрын

    Historical ecology encompasses all of the data, techniques, and perspectives from paleoecology; land-use history from archival and documentary research; and long-term ecological research and monitoring extended over decades. Multiple, comparative histories from many locations can help evaluate both cultural and natural causes of variability and characterize the overall dynamic properties of ecosystems (Swetnam et al. 1999). In fact, twentieth-century trends suggest that disregarding history can be perilous. Examples include the emergence of increasingly severe wildfire activity in the western United States and the role of extreme drought in triggering forest dieback and accelerated soil erosion in the American Southwest. Human-generated changes must be constrained because nature has functional, historical, and evolutionary limits. Nature has a range of ways to be, but there is a limit to those ways, and, therefore, human changes must be within those limits. (Christensen et al. 1996) A primary objective of historical ecology is to help define the various limits, the natural range of variability for ecological systems (Swetnam et al. 1999). In this way, applying historical knowledge guides and constrains resource management actions to sustainably mesh with those limits. Environmental history research concentrates on the patterns and causes of ecological changes in the landscapes of these southwestern mountain ranges. It includes extensive work on historic, ground-based photographs for this area, with relocation and retaking of photographs that were taken as long ago as 1880 by the Bureau of Biological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, USDA Forest Service, early archaeologists, and others.

  • @iftisambalindong7381

    @iftisambalindong7381

    4 жыл бұрын

    These episode gives e brief information of ecology. How the nonliving and living things is related to each other. It also shows that in every actions of the living things have effects in the nonliving things. For me this episode is telling us that the knowledge we have about the ecology is must be applied to save our ecosystem.

  • @ainiebaldecasa8800

    @ainiebaldecasa8800

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ecology is all about study of environment. It became a discipline while science continue studying life and the non-living things that affect life like water and soil. Vernadsky pioneered ways to analyse nature historically. One was the geochemistry, or using the methods of chemistry to understand minerals, another was biogeochemistry which analyses living and non-living processes. The3 scientist use experiments to generate mathematic models tracing the flow of energy from non-living source into primary producers, primary consumers, meat eaters and eaters of dead things. However, our environment is very important because it will contribute in the field of science like the living and non-living things.

  • @jeamilainidal714

    @jeamilainidal714

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ecology is the study of the interactions of living organisms with their environment. Ecologists study within several biological levels of organization, which include organism, population, community, and ecosystem. I find this very essential to study since it seeks to explain the life process where in it is fact that we're included to it since I believe that everything is interconnected. What we do will be the product of what is happening right now.

  • @nashimaguinaresmail3765

    @nashimaguinaresmail3765

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ecology by definition states that it involve studying the life and the nonliving things that affect life like soil and water. Answering why is it significant to us? Because it helps us understand how the world works. It provides useful evidence on the interdependence between people and the natural world, as well as the consequences of human activity on the environment. Here are some of the questions answered by British Ecological Society: Can we conserve a habitat and its biodiversity? Yes. Ecology provides the essential basis for nature conservation. Maintaining a mosaic of habitats ensures the survival of a rich variety of species. Can we predict the ecological effects of pollution and climate change? Governments and citizens around the world are increasingly aware of the consequences of atmospheric pollution and climate change. In large-scale experiments, plants and animals are exposed to carefully controlled atmospheres and different ecological conditions. Scientists use this information to understand how they respond to pollution levels, and make predictions about future climate change. Can we fish the ocean without depleting its riches? It is possible, but does depend on where we are in the world. In the Antarctic, the marine ecosystem is currently managed as a whole under an international agreement to conserve living resources. How does forest destruction affect bird populations? About one third of forest bird species cannot live in small remnants of forests. The smaller birds such as the forest robin will use patches as small as 10 ha and the largest species, such as the brown-cheeked hornbill, need patches bigger than 10 square km. Should mangroves be protected? Mangroves play a number of ecological roles from fixing sediments to acting as nursery site for young fish. Mangrove forests are also a source of food, medicine and firewood for local populations.

  • @Dayglodaydreams
    @Dayglodaydreams5 жыл бұрын

    Someone (even a non CCer) should do CC Bernatsky or something.

  • @Dayglodaydreams

    @Dayglodaydreams

    5 жыл бұрын

    cough cough Vernatsky, of course I know that cough cough (I totally did not).

  • @justinway1622
    @justinway16225 жыл бұрын

    No Alexander von Humboldt? Tisk tisk

  • @wesleyrm76
    @wesleyrm765 жыл бұрын

    But wait, you didn't mention my favorite scientist! I'm so mad I will reply to all comments and tell them that Tesla is better than any scientist from this video.

  • @joeoconnor7725
    @joeoconnor77255 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like someone applied the power of distribution and transformation on the planet? ??

  • @ARoundThing
    @ARoundThing5 жыл бұрын

    Here before 500 views?

  • @Jordan-os5cp
    @Jordan-os5cp5 жыл бұрын

    This would’ve been really helpful like...last week....

  • @lincolnpepper816
    @lincolnpepper8165 жыл бұрын

    idk, making sicc memes is pretty important

  • @Attilles
    @Attilles5 жыл бұрын

    Eighteenth!

  • @sarahgerhardt4747
    @sarahgerhardt47475 жыл бұрын

    Im early, I wish I could think of a good science joke.

  • @chaoticneutral7573
    @chaoticneutral75735 жыл бұрын

    Who knows noosphere from STALKER game

  • @NATHANOLOGY
    @NATHANOLOGY5 жыл бұрын

    I made a song about the history of science as it pertains to ecology!@​

  • @dewagelinjang
    @dewagelinjang4 жыл бұрын

    Just discovered you today; it's very interesting courses, thank you! But, can you talk normally with slower pace and less monotonous? I find that with your speaking style so much information just easily slipping away.. thank you..

  • @Joenem3611

    @Joenem3611

    4 жыл бұрын

    🤣

  • @mia2030
    @mia20305 жыл бұрын

    You look tired Hank. Are you okay?

  • @nuclearrambo3167
    @nuclearrambo3167 Жыл бұрын

    "memento mori"

  • @genessab
    @genessab5 жыл бұрын

    Don’t forget the Paris Climate Agreement! Oh wait..

  • @zidani.s6712

    @zidani.s6712

    5 жыл бұрын

    😥

  • @-moulsvt2077
    @-moulsvt20775 жыл бұрын

    Wellcom to my channal for seance

  • @i_smoke_ghosts
    @i_smoke_ghosts5 жыл бұрын

    1th wow

  • @elgordo687
    @elgordo6875 жыл бұрын

    If you want your dream job, get your degree in ecology!

  • @Corporis
    @Corporis5 жыл бұрын

    I guess you could say these scientists were a bunch of...Eco Geeks.

  • @vojkanveselinovic9053
    @vojkanveselinovic90535 жыл бұрын

    Prvi

  • @tommyboyer3104
    @tommyboyer31045 жыл бұрын

    Shouldn't meteorology be part of ecology?

  • @brunof.m3170

    @brunof.m3170

    5 жыл бұрын

    The climate is of a essential importance in ecology, but it's another thing. Ecology has its focus on how >living< things interact with each other and the enviroment.

  • @sheiksahadat725
    @sheiksahadat7255 жыл бұрын

    First

  • @dimitarstefanov2516
    @dimitarstefanov25165 жыл бұрын

    Most boring ep!

  • @user-vn7ce5ig1z
    @user-vn7ce5ig1z5 жыл бұрын

    Stop making that noise whenever the graphics change; it's annoying and very distracting, especialy when it happens several times in a row. 😒

  • @LangThoughts
    @LangThoughts5 жыл бұрын

    Next week: How Liberalism Got Control of Science

  • @varana

    @varana

    5 жыл бұрын

    Next week: How American "Conservatives" Started to Fight Science.