Ecology

The interactions of organisms with each other and their environment.

Parent category: Biology

Articles (3)

• Coral Bleaching
  Why heat-stressed corals expel their symbiotic algae and turn white, what triggers mass bleaching events, and what recovery does and does not look like.
• Food Webs and Trophic Levels
  How energy and matter flow through ecosystems from producers to consumers and decomposers, with roughly 10% transfer between levels.
• Ecological Succession
  The directional change in species composition of a community over time after disturbance or on newly exposed substrate.

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