Children will learn about riparian areas and their importance in maintaining balanced ecosystems in lands adjoining lakes, streams and rivers, as they play these colourful, interactive games.

Comprehensive reference material on the American bison: its habitat, physical features, eating habits, reproduction, behavior, communication, roles in a prairie ecosystem, and interactions with humans.

Find out about the plant and animal interactions within the rainforest ecosystem.

Learners explore and describe how succession affects biodiversity by creating an island ecosystem in an interactive game.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Predation is another mechanism in which species interact with each other. Predation is when a predator organism feeds on another living organism or organisms, known...

Learn how mutualism benefits the organisms in a symbiotic relationship and what the different types of mutualism are. Provides lots of examples.

Join Sam on his journey to the bottom of the sea. Explore beautiful animals living in the sea, and learn about the importance of a well-balanced habitat.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about the evolution of agriculture and how it has impacted human population growth. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

The concept of competitive exclusion, explained here, states that two species cannot co-exist when needing the same, limited resources to survive. The different types are described and examples are provided.

Explains what parasitism is and provides a few examples of parasitic relationships.

Shiretoko Peninsula is located in the north-east of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan. The site includes the land from the central part of the peninsula to its tip (Shiretoko Cape) and the surrounding marine area. It provides an...

Cocos Island National Park, located 550 km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is the only island in the tropical eastern Pacific with a tropical rainforest. Its position as the first point of contact with the northern equatorial...

Ibiza provides an excellent example of the interaction between the marine and coastal ecosystems. The dense prairies of oceanic Posidonia (seagrass), an important endemic species found only in the Mediterranean basin, contain and support...

Earth is the only place we have found life so far. The following tutorial provides a unique look into the characteristics of life.