The large proportion of the landscape classified as matrix may have profound influences on the ecological processes in the landscape; for example, consider the flow of pesticides from the farmed ...

Ecologists also study many kinds of environments. 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 ...

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 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 ...