One facet of ecology is the study of the adaptations and adjustments which exist between animals and the environmental conditions surrounding them, Studies of such adjustments are made in the laboratory by placing an animal under a particular set of conditions and measuring its response when a condition is changed. Similar studies of adaptation can be made in the field on either a single species or an entire fauna. Here, variation in environmental conditions may be studied in two ways: one may remain in a single area centering attention on adjustments made by animals to the seasonal changes in the environment, or one may study several areas at the same season each having different environmental conditions and compare the. responses of the animals.
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