Crash Course Ecology

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The History of Life on Earth
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With a solid understanding of biology on the small scale under our belts, it's time for the long view - for the next twelve weeks, we'll be learning how the living things that we've .. show full overview
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Population Ecology: The Texas Mosquito Mystery
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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 .. show full overview
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Human Population Growth
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If being alive on Earth were a contest, humans would win it hands down. We're like the Michael Phelps of being alive, but with 250,000 times more gold medals. Today Hank is here to tell .. show full overview
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Community Ecology: Feel the Love
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Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are .. show full overview
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Community Ecology II: Predators
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Hank gets to the more violent part of community ecology by describing predation and the many ways prey organisms have developed to avoid it.
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Ecological Succession: Change is Good
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In the world of ecology, the only constant is change - but change can be good. Today Hank explains ecological succession and how ecological communities change over time to become beautiful, biodiverse mosaics.
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Ecosystem Ecology: Links in the Chain
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Hank brings us to the next level of ecological study with ecosystem ecology, which looks at how energy, nutrients, and materials are getting shuffled around within an ecosystem (a .. show full overview
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The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle!
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Hank introduces us to biogeochemical cycles by describing his two favorites: carbon and water. The hydrologic cycle describes how water moves on, above, and below the surface of the .. show full overview
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Nitrogen & Phosphorus Cycles: Always Recycle! Part 2
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Hank describes the desperate need many organisms have for nutrients (specifically nitrogen and phosphorus) and how they go about getting them via the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles.
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5 Human Impacts on the Environment
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Hank gives the run down on the top five ways humans are negatively impacting the environment and having detrimental effects on the valuable ecosystem services which a healthy biosphere provides.
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Pollution
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Hank talks about the last major way humans are impacting the environment in this penultimate episode of Crash Course Ecology. Pollution takes many forms - from the simplest piece of .. show full overview
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Conservation and Restoration Ecology
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Hank wraps up the Crash Course on ecology by taking a look at the growing fields of conservation biology and restoration ecology, which use all the kung fu moves we've learned about in .. show full overview

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