Ecologist

Why do pesticides cause species of birds to decline? What is the role of biodiversity in an ecosystem? What are the consequences to biodiversity with changes in sedimentation and water? These are all common questions you would find an ecologist scrounging for information on; questions such as these are the basis and fundamentals of ecology. Ecology is derived from the German word oikos to mean the study of home. Ecology is the study of relationships between organisms and the environment in which they reside.

Ecologists don’t spend every second of their life in nature in fact ecologist spend most of their time in a lab processing environmental data. Ecologists spend on average two to four weeks, or months in some cases, in the field and the rest is spent analyzing data and observing how factors such as temperature and change in rainfall or soil can affect the organisms and their environment. Ecologists can be anyone from someone who works for the government to someone involved in a non-profitable organization or even on their own. In order for a career in ecology to go smoothly most people have experience with environmental science, chemistry, writing, reporting, computer skills, other sciences, and have experience in the field. Ecology is an international profession which results in jobs available all across the globe for this science; field work is spread throughout the entirety of the globe as well because the availability of environments to study is widespread and enormous. Ecologist make on average sixty thousand dollars a year and the lower range of their salaries consist of thirty thousand dollars per year.

In order to be an ecologist you need a bachelors degree in science and being an ecologist has benefits. Being an ecologist has many perquisites and there are many highlights of the career. Ecologists benefit from the high salary in comparison to other jobs. The scientists also get the satisfaction of helping to better habitats of organisms all