An Integrated Approach to Ecology

The branch of biology that studies the interactions between organisms and their environment is known as ecology. Biodiversity, biomass, populations of organisms, distribution, competition and cooperation between different species are the major topics that fall under this field of study. The study of ecology can be structured by organizing the biological world into a nested hierarchy, that ranges in scale from genes to cells, organs, organisms, species and so on, up to the level of the biosp...