Hi, what do you want to do?
Crash Course
Community Ecology: Feel the Love
Warblers are small birds that have been known to get caught in spider webs. The video covers community ecology, focusing on the Competitive Exclusion Principle using the example of warblers. It also includes fundamental versus realized...
Curated OER
Competition, Predation, and Symbiosis
Each biome has self sustaining communities, but how did these unique and stable communities form? Investigate how these evolved with changing animal interactions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Vulture: India's Clean Up Crew
In this video, students examine the role of vultures as scavengers, and explore the link between the vultures' niche and human health in India. [4:40]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parts of an Ecosystem
A video lesson defining the basic vocabulary necessary to describe an ecosystem and its parts. Learn how the abiotic and biotic factors work together to form an ecosystem. [7:27]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Niche
Paul Andersen explains the niche. He gives three different pronunciations and two different definitions. He then discusses the competitive exclusion principle and the idea that a niche cannot be shared by two species.