Ecophysiology is a field of ecology that is responsible for the study of the physiological processes of living organisms under the control of environmental factors. In other words, it analyzes all those physiological phenomena that are found outside the laboratories, that is, in their natural environment, which will be dominated by different changes and transformations, product of the action of man or nature.
Ecophysiology is classified as: plant ecophysiology and animal ecophysiology.
Plant ecophysiology is responsible for managing human development conditions and assesses the response of a specific process. In other words, this discipline analyzes the physiological responses to different environmental states, creating techniques that allow evaluating the small environment of plants, their water correlation and gas exchange models.
Animal ecophysiology, this is a discipline that arises from a lack of understanding, not knowing how to translate environmental data into morpho-functional modifications of environmental phenotypes. A typical example of research in this area are toxicology studies, where the condensation of toxins or pollutants, such as pesticides, found in the environment and its consequences on the metabolism of the animals that inhabit that environment.
The study that develops ecophysiology values the interactive approach of the species, uniting studies not limited only to physiology, but relating development, the behavior of animals and plants, diffusion and systematization, focusing on the different levels of organization internally. independent.
