In order to build our collective knowledge about the world around us, information gathered by scientific inquiry needs to be shared. To ensure quality, published information goes through a peer review...In order to build our collective knowledge about the world around us, information gathered by scientific inquiry needs to be shared. To ensure quality, published information goes through a peer review process, in which other scientists in the field review and comment on the work. However, not all sources of information available to the public are peer reviewed, and as consumers of information, we need to understand how to evaluate those sources.
At the population and community levels, ecologists explore, respectively, how a population of organisms changes over time and the ways in which that population interacts with other species in the comm...At the population and community levels, ecologists explore, respectively, how a population of organisms changes over time and the ways in which that population interacts with other species in the community. Ecologists studying an ecosystem examine the living species (the biotic components) of the ecosystem as well as the nonliving portions (the abiotic components), such as air, water, and soil, of the environment.
