About the Book: Environmental Science: Empirical Studies
Environmental Science is the scientific study of thedistribution, abundance of
life and the interaction betweenorganisms and their natural environment. It is a
multidisciplinaryscience. Because of its focus on the higher levels of
theorganization of life on earth and on the interrelations betweenorganisms and
their environment, ecology draws on many otherbranches of science, especially
geology and geography, meteorology,pedology, genetics chemistry, and physics.
Thus, ecology isconsidered by some to be a holistic science, one that
over-archesolder disciplines such as biology which in this view
becomesub-disciplines contributing to ecological knowledge.