Date Time Camp Activity Partner

Organization
Sept 10 12:00-4:00 pm Pre-Camp Career OIKOS
(Monday) Orientation
Sept 10 6:00-10:00 pm Pre-Camp Freshmen UP CHE SC
(Monday) Acquaintance
Sept 15 and 23 5:30 am -5:00 Pre-Camp Steward’s HSP Soc
(Sat, Sun) pm Journey
Oct 1 6:00 pm-9:00 Pre-Camp TagHessian UPHESS
(Monday) pm
Oct 13-14 and 5:00 am (Sat)- In Camp HECO Camp SDS 30 and
20-21 (Sat and 6:00 pm (Sun) STP-UPLB
Sun)
November 12 1:00-4:00 pm Post Camp Food Expo PANAO-UPLB
(Monday)
November 14 6:00-9:00 pm Post Camp Mr. and Ms. FDSOC
(Wed) CHE
ECOLOGY
OIKOS HOUSEHOLD

LOGOS STUDY
ECOLOGY
The scientific study of the
relationships of all living
beings within and among
themselves and their
environment.
-(Smith and Smith, 2012)
HUMAN ECOLOGY
The scientific study of
the relationship between
humans and their
environment.
(Rambo, 1983)
HUMAN SYSTEM
 Individual, Family, Organizations,
Institutions, and Community

 Social characteristics of humans

that include values, knowledge,
technology, organizations, and
population
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
 water, fuels, clothes, food and
materials for other productions

 provide services by means of

moving materials, information and
energy to the human system
ENVIRONMENT
Is perceived as an ecosystem
that is not limited to the natural
environment but rather includes
the social, cultural, economic and
human-built system.
Figure 1. Interaction, coevolution and coadaptation of the human social
system with the ecosystem (Rambo and Sajise, 1985, as cited and
modified by Marten in 2001).
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Development that meets the

needs of the present without
compromising the ability of
future generations to meet
their own needs.
World Commission on Environment and
Development, 1987
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

It is about allowing your

children and grandchildren to
have a chance to experience a
decent life.
(Marten, 2001)
HUMAN ECOLOGY
Is a cognitive practice that is designed
by the collective expectation that
involves the moral outcomes of the
interactions of human and environment
and thus the emergence of the
discipline of Human Ecology.
(Young, 1983; Christensen, 2014)
BASIC CONCEPTS IN ECOLOGY

LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION
The arrangement of graded
series that interacting with
each other and physical
environment that produced a
functional system.
(Odum and Barrett, 2005)
Figure 2. Ecological levels-of-organization hierarchy
(Source: Odum and Barrett, 2005)
ORGANISM
is an individual living creature
 It is composed of organ system,
that is in turn composed of cell
and genetic material; which in
turn are made up of molecules,
atoms and sub-atomic particles.
(Layman, 2003)
SEVEN (7) CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFE

respond to
grow and
their
change
environment

complex
reproduce
chemistry
SEVEN (7) CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFE

maintain structures
homeostasis called cells

pass their
reproduce traits onto
their offspring
POPULATION
The critical characteristics of
population is that the individuals are
capable of interbreeding with each
other and at the same time they are
confined within the same boundary
(Smith and Smith, 2012).
Let’s play!
A ____ of A ____ of
ants? bees?

A ____ of A ____ of
chicken? cobras?

A ____ of
crocodiles?
A _____ of A _____ of
dogs? elephants?

A _____ of A _____ of
gorillas? fishes?

A _____ of
turtles?
Table 1. Population indices (Source: Odum and Barrett, 2005)

Indices of Population Description

Crude density The number (or biomass) per unit
of total space
Ecological density The number (or biomass) per unit
of habitat space (available area or
volume that can actually be
colonized by the population)
Relative abundance The number of species seen per
unit time
Frequency of The percentage of sample plots
occurrence occupied by a species
Importance value Combined density, dominance and
frequency
Figure 4. Three types of age pyramids representing expanding, stable and
collapsing age class (Source: Odum and Barrett, 2005)
Figure 5. Population age pyramids stages (Source: Jung, 2012)
COMMUNITY

Includes all the populations

occupying a given area.
(Odum and Barrett 2005)
ATTRIBUTES OF A COMMUNITY

(1) number of species, (2) their relative

abundance, (3) the interaction of the
organism, and lastly (4) physical structure
such as growth forms of the organism
(Smith and Smith, 2012).
ECOSYSTEM
It is a unit of study consisting of
living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic)
factors interacting in a specific
area. (Tansley, 1935)

It can be as small as a dead log or a

pond, a forest or grassland and as
big as the whole planet earth.
(Townsend et al, 2008)
The assemblage of species of
plants and animals living in a
common area and are interacting
with each other is called
biotic community.
Carrying capacity, in the context of
humans, is the optimum number of
population that the environment can
support in a sustainable manner
including both the extraction and use
of resources as well as disposal and
pollution.
Natural ecosystems organized
themselves, meaning they survive
with natural inputs such as sunlight
and water.
Human-managed ecosystem or
agroecosystem are organized with
the help of human inputs.
COMPONENTS OF AN ECOSYSTEM

STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS

I. ABIOTIC A. ENERGY FLOW
A. Energy B. FOOD CHAIN
B. Chemicals a. grazing
C. Physical Factors b. parasitic
a. temperature c. detritus
b. sunlight C. Food Web
c. Water D. Carbon Cycle
II. BIOTIC COMPONENTS E. Nitrogen Cycle
A. Producers F. Phosphorus Cycle
B. Consumers G. Sulfur Cycle
C. Decomposers
ECOSPHERE

The grand system

that includes all life
forms and the areas
on/in which they
exist.