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Populations, Communities and Ecosystems

Build the ecological hierarchy from one species in an area to a whole ecosystem.

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Ecology zooms out in levels

Ecologists can study one species in one place, all the species living together, or the full living and non-living system. The names population, community and ecosystem mark those different levels of zoom.