The idea of the conception of nature was necessary to the development of the study of ecology. The emergence of the field of sociology deflected the momentum began by Darwin i. It was reinvented by environmental sociology in the 1970 s ii. Durkheim caused people to pay attention to resource scarcity, which is caused by population growth. This was the first example of the environmental revolution influenced sociology.
Ecosystems are unique mixtures of plants and animals that are connected through food chains.
One species provides energy for the next level 2. Green plants begin the cycle and carnivores end it, just before decomposers bring the cycle to the beginning again. Scientists devise new theories, possibly simpler or more straightforward than previous thinking, to solve unexplainable observations, or to resolve contradiction in existing theories. For scientists to do this they must have financial support. The scientific revolution produced both ecology and the concept of ecosystem.