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Ecology

Ecology is the study of a community of biota, including the interactions with abiotic factors such as soils, water, and meteorological factors. The field of ecology addresses interactions of plants and animals including feeding behavior, selection of nesting or denning sites and competition among species. Time changes are particularly important, such as landscape changes arising from plant succession. Conservation of habitats is analyzed in order to determine the viability of not only individual species, but of the entire assemblage of flora, fauna and micro-organisms in a given ecosystem.

    • Lake Urmia Featured Article Lake Urmia Lake Urmia

      Lake Urmia is a shallow perennial inland salt water body in northwestern Iran. This lake is the second largest in the Middle East, measuring roughly 5000 square kilometers in... More »

    • Benthos Featured Article Benthos Benthos

      Benthos is one of three major ecological groups into which marine organisms are divided, the other two being the nekton and the plankton. The benthos are organisms and... More »

    • Habitat fragmentation Featured Article Habitat fragmentation Habitat fragmentation

      Habitat fragmentation involves alteration of habitat resulting in spatial separation of habitat units from a previous state of greater continuity. ... More »

    • Review: Forest restoration Featured Article Review: Forest restoration Review: Forest restoration

      This Review, written by Raf Aerts and Olivier Honnay*, appeared first in BioMed Central Ecology—a peer-reviewed, open access journal. This review article is part of the... More »

    • Cheetah Featured Article Cheetah Cheetah

      The Cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus, is a vulnerable species within the cat family. While the fastest land animal and an adept hunter, this felid is not agressive... More »

    • Terrestrial biome Featured Article Terrestrial biome Terrestrial biome

      Introduction Many places on Earth share similar climatic conditions despite being found in geographically different areas. As a result of natural... More »

    • Europa Island Featured Article Europa Island Europa Island

      Europa Island located in the southern Mozambique Channel, between Madagascar and Mozambique. Europa Island is about 100 kilometers (km) southeast of Bassas da... More »

    • Virus Featured Article Virus Virus

      A virus is a microscopic organism that can replicate only inside the cells of a host organism. Most viruses are so tiny they are only observable with at least a conventional... More »

    • Common bats of Big Bend National Park Featured Article Common bats of Big Bend National Park Common bats of Big Bend National Park

      This article was researched and written by a student at Texas Tech University participating in the Encyclopedia of Earth's (EoE) Student Science Communication Project. The... More »

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Amphibian Last Updated on 2012-05-24 at 14:54 The term amphibian comes from the Greek amphibios meaning "both lives". This is an apt description because most adult amphibians are better adapted to... More »
Draa River Last Updated on 2012-05-24 at 14:08 The Draa River of Morocco rised in the High Atlas Mountains and flows to the Atlantic Ocean. Even though the Draa Basin is sparsely populated compared to world standards, the... More »
DNA Last Updated on 2012-05-24 at 13:15 Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a long chain organic molecule that contains the coding for all metabolic and reproductive processes of all living organisms, save for certain... More »
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