What is a climax community? Climax community the final community in the process of ecological…
Tag: Fundamentals of Ecology
The concept of ecological succession is fundamental to ecological studies. It explains how the composition of species (the community) in an area gradually change over time, along with changes in physical characteristics of the environment.
The Y-shaped energy flow model, also called the universal model of energy flow, describes how energy flows in an ecosystem through interconnected food chains.
Life on Earth is a wondrous thing. It will do everything it possibly can, to…
Why can’t we kill all mosquitoes in the world? What would happen if we…helped…mosquitoes go extinct? You may not like the answer to these questions.
A keystone species holds the ecosystem together. In this post, we look at the examples of keystone species across different trophic levels, and how keystone species can be super important for conservation efforts.
Human beings are not the most dominant species by intelligence alone, we are also the…