A large collection of resources to aid professionals, community members, and educators in communicating the role and importance of ecosystem services. Issues addressed include pollination, marine nurseries, and water purification....

Explains how a climatic community is the end product of ecological succession and describes the process by which this happens. Provides several examples of climax communities.

Describes six levels of organization in the biological world - individual species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere.

Biomonitoring is the term scientists use to describe the use of plants, animals, or entire ecosystems to tell if our environment is polluted. Biomonitoring has been used by biologists and scientists to give us information about our...