Community Ecology

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• Whole-chapter tour of community ecology: niches, competition, predation, symbiosisCommunity Ecology: Feel the Love - Crash Course Ecology #4CrashCourse
• What a biological community is, plus species composition and species diversityCommunitiesBozeman Science
• College-level look at community structure and how communities are bounded and describedCommunity Ecology and Landscape EcologyProfessor Dave Explains
• The niche concept, including fundamental vs realized nicheNicheBozeman Science
• Competitive exclusion principle and what happens when two niches overlapNiche and Competitive ExclusionMr. P Science
• Connell's barnacle experiment as the classic test of fundamental vs realized nicheInterspecific Competition: Connell’s Barnacle Experiment | EcolClipsEcolClips
• Resource partitioning and character displacement as ways species avoid exclusionResource PartitioningDeBacco University
• Predator-prey population cycles using the lynx and snowshoe hare dataPredator prey cycle | Ecology | Khan AcademyKhan Academy
• The Lotka-Volterra equations behind the predator-prey oscillationsPredator-Prey Interactions, Episode 1: Understanding the Lotka-Volterra EquationsExplorations in Biology, Evolution, and More
• Plant mechanical and chemical defenses against herbivoryThe amazing ways plants defend themselves - Valentin HammoudiTED-Ed
• Fast survey of predation, competition, mutualism, commensalism, and parasitismEcological RelationshipsAmoeba Sisters
• Mutualism and symbiosis told through a real food-web storySymbiosis: A surprising tale of species cooperation - David GonzalesTED-Ed
• Batesian vs Mullerian mimicry side by side with worked examplesBatesian vs Mullerian Mimicry | Animal Behavioursci-ology
• Warning coloration and why bright prey advertise themselvesAposematic ColorationBozeman Science
• Coevolution vs convergent evolution, with newt/garter snake and acacia ant examplesCoevolutionBozeman Science
• Primary and secondary succession, pioneer species, and climax communitiesEcological Succession: Change is Good - Crash Course Ecology #6CrashCourse
• Second pass at succession with clear primary vs secondary examplesEcological Succession: Nature's Great GritAmoeba Sisters
• Paine's sea star work and how keystone species set community richnessHow Starfish Changed Modern EcologyNature on PBS
• Intermediate disturbance hypothesis and its effect on species diversityDisturbance and Species Diversity || Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis .Biology Lectures with Sonam