For example, ecologists may study microbes living in the soil under your feet or animals and plants in a rain forest or the ocean. The many specialties within ecology, such as marine, vegetation, and ...

For example, predators on islands in the Gulf of ... For decades, parasites were omitted from the study of food web ecology based on the assumption that they contributed negligible biomass to ...

Ecological restoration seeks to do just that ... such as pollination or erosion control. Some examples of different kinds of restoration include the following: Revegetation- the establishment ...

Ecological succession is the process by which natural communities replace (or “succeed”) one another over time. For example, when an old farm field in the midwestern U.S. is abandoned and left alone ...