Episode 45 - Deserts
The deserts are an extreme biome, characterized by scorching heat during the day, freezing cold at night, and an ever-present lack of water that dominates the very evolution of the organisms that live...
15 Aug 201945min
Episode 44 - Wetlands
The wetlands are an incredibly complex and ecologically vital transitional zone between the bodies of water like rivers, lakes, and oceans, and the dry land itself.
15 Aug 201942min
Episode 43 - Oceans
The Earth's oceans are the largest biomes on the planet, and the womb of all Earth's life. From the emergence of the first cells, to the emergence of land-based organisms, the oceans have always been ...
15 Aug 201943min
Episode 42 - Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the raw variation in the living things that inhabit some region of the world. Some habitats are barren, with low biodiversity, but other habitats are nutrient-rich & fruitful, populate...
15 Aug 201941min
Episode 41 - Ecosystem & Biosphere Ecology
The ecosystem is the consummate totality of a regions ecology, including not just all the organisms & their interactions, but also their interactions with the physical environment, and the geochemical...
15 Aug 201945min
Episode 40 - Community Ecology
When countless individuals and populations live in a certain habitat, it creates a diverse biological community, consisting of numerous species of plant, fungi, arthropod, and vertebrate.
15 Aug 201945min
Episode 39 - Population Ecology
When individuals live together, their collective behavior has a larger, meta-effect on the environment, quickly entangling the population into the larger ecological web that sustains their habitat.
15 Aug 201943min
Episode 38 - Behavioral Ecology
The actions of an individual can have far-reaching effects. Behavioral ecology seeks to understand how individual organisms behave in their social and geophysical environment, and in turn, how the beh...
7 Jul 201944min
