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Community Ecology: Interspecies Interactions: Crash Course Biology #6
Community ecology is the study of interactions between different species of living things, and lets ecologists examine the effects of predator-prey relationships, parasites, and mutually beneficial interactions. In this episode of Crash...
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Community Ecology II: Predators - Crash Course Ecology
Hank gets to the more violent part of community ecology by describing predation and the many ways prey organisms have developed to avoid it.
Crash Course
Community Ecology: Feel the Love - Crash Course Ecology
Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous,...
Professor Dave Explains
Community Ecology and Landscape Ecology
With a better understanding of population ecology, we are ready to zoom out and look at community ecology, which involves interactions between species, as well as landscape ecology, which will broaden our understanding of ecosystems. How...
Professor Dave Explains
Scales of Ecology Part 2: Communities
Moving on from organisms and populations, the next tier on the scales of ecology is communities. These involve all the populations of organisms of different species that live in an area. How do they interact? How is the community...
Crash Course
Crash Course Ecology #4: Community Ecology: Feel the Love
Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous,...
Crash Course
Crash Course Ecology #5: Community Ecology Ii: Predators
Hank gets to the more violent part of community ecology by describing predation and the many ways prey organisms have developed to avoid it. [10:23]
Crash Course
Crash Course Ecology #2: Population Ecology: The Texas Mosquito Mystery
Population ecology is the study of groups within a species that interact mostly with each other, and it examines how they live together in one geographic area to understand why these populations are different in one time and place than...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simpson's Index of Diversity
Species number and relative abundance affect the diversity of a community. We can use Simpson's index of diversity to quantify and compare the diversity of different communities. [5:42]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Exploring the Wild Life of Our Bodies
Biologist Rob Dunn explains how the organisms that share our world have shaped us. [17 mins. 39]