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Ecology

How we study interactions

$ What is ecology?

Ecology is the study of interactions

$ What is biotic/abiotic?

Biotic describes living things, abiotic is non-living things.

$ How do yo know if two organisms are of the same specie?

They can reproduce with each other, interbreed, produce fertile offspring

$ What are individual interactions?

Survival and reproduction, the unit of natural selection

$ What are population interactions?

Population dynamics, the unit of evolution

$ What are community interactions?

Interactions among species

$ What are ecosystem interactions?

Flow of energy and matter

$ What are biosphere interactions?

Global processes

Population Ecology

Community Ecology

Energy Pyramids

Biosphere Ecology