Population Ecology: The Texas Mosquito Mystery - Crash Course Ecology #2
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...
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In our series on biology, we spent many weeks together talking about the physiology of animals and plants and how cells work together to make tissues to make organs to make organ systems to make us the hunks of meat and vegetables that we are. In understanding the whole organism, it's important to know what's going on at all those levels. And the same is true for ecology, only instead of zooming in and out on different levels within a living thing, we can zoom in and out on the Earth. Depending on the power of the magnification, we can understand a whole range of things about our planet. For instance, we can look at groups within a species and how they live together in one geographic area -- that's population ecology. There's also communi...
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In our series on biology, we spent many weeks together talking about the physiology of animals and plants and how cells work together to make tissues to make organs to make organ systems to make us the hunks of meat and vegetables that we are. In understanding the whole organism, it's important to know what's going on at all those levels. And the same is true for ecology, only instead of zooming in and out on different levels within a living thing, we can zoom in and out on the Earth. Depending on the power of the magnification, we can understand a whole range of things about our planet. For instance, we can look at groups within a species and how they live together in one geographic area -- that's population ecology. There's also communi...
