Environment
Environment is the total sum of physical and biotic conditions influencing the responses of the organisms in a particular habitat. Interrelations establish as organisms respond in various ways to contact with one another and with the ever-changing environment. For the existence, an organism must adjust to the conditions of the surroundings. This adjustment is made by morphological adaptations, physiological adjustment, behavior patterns and community relations. These all made a harmony between the biotic and physical realms for hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
However, man has become the dominant organism in the biosphere, forcing changes to fit his needs and desires, and creating ecosystems different from any that have before existed. Modern man has initiated a number of abrupt changes during the last few centuries beyond the capacity of the ecosystem to adjust. He has greatly modified or replaced the natural processes, the control stability and balance within the ecosystem with new process and manufactured products which the environment can not absorb. This will lead towards a general deterioration of the environment and will affect the living population. Unless the matter is resolved, explosion of the human species and disharmony in the world ecosystem will lead quickly to a catastrophe. Global warming, climate change, nuclear, chemical and biological arsenals and cosmic and ultraviolet radiation from the space and stars and genetically modified organisms etc. are the great threat to the present world.
Although there are conflicts between the technological advancement with the natural laws for maintaining stability and equilibrium between the living and physical environments, considerable knowledge already exists for solving these problems. Therefore, immediate remedial measures should be taken for a satisfactory solution, emphasizing the understanding of the environmental systems and multidisciplinary basis of ecosystems.
We need to survey the fundamentals and the basic facts of environmental changes and should study the community ecology, local distribution of living organisms, succession and dynamics of ecosystem, nutrient and energy flow, biomass recycling and the manner of population growth structure and regulation etc. Scientific analysis of natural history and a comprehensive understanding of communities including intra and interspecies relationship, community structure and function are essential to combat the quick environmental changes.
However, our mission is to translate the ecological concepts into mathematical models, identification and correction of the wrongs and to create awareness about the internal environment to face the changing external conditions.