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
Episode 37 - Introduction to Ecology
A brief introduction to ecology, including the relationship between organism & physical environment, the relationships between organisms, and the geochemical nutrient cycling that sustains the biosph...
7 Jul 201941min
Episode 36 - Viruses
The viruses are pathogenic conglomerations of biomolecules, existing somewhere in the ambiguous void between true life, and unliving physical chemistry. Some say the viruses are not alive, others say ...
3 Jul 201937min
Episode 35 - Animals
The animals are dynamic biochemical superstructures; they are mobile food-processing tubes, equipped with a variety of appendages and morphologies adapted to a particular habitat & ecological niche.
3 Jul 201938min
Episode 34 - Fungus
The fungus are the quiet decomposers, playing a critical role in the recycling of biomatter. Without fungus to break down dead biomass and return those nutrients to the wild, the biosphere would colla...
21 Jun 201939min
Episode 33 - Plants
The plants are photosynthetic organisms, capable of turning the raw energy in sunlight into biological chemicals, which then sustains the entire food chain with carbon & nutrients.
21 Jun 201939min
Episode 32 - Protista
The protista are a diverse group of organisms, including both single celled and multicellular species. From an evolutionary perspective, they are the bridge between bacteria, and complex macroscopic l...
20 Jun 201938min
