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In this activity, students use an interactive tool to simulate how scientists collected and used sample data to estimate elephant population sizes.

This Click & Learn shows that keystone species exist across a variety of ecosystems and can exert their influence in different ways.

This web tool provides a quick and easy way of visualizing and analyzing data without advanced technological requirements.

The added information provided at pause points within the animation Coral Bleaching allows for a richer exploration of coral reefs, symbiosis, and other topics in biology.

This film explores the foundational research in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, that uncovered many of the ecological principles that govern how animal populations and communities are regulated.

This film explores the species-area relationship, a general ecological rule that describes how the number of species in a habitat changes with area, and shows how it has been applied to the conservation of protected areas.

This multipart animation series explores the process of photosynthesis and the structures that carry it out.

This interactive module allows students to collect and analyze data from a virtual river to construct biomass and energy pyramids.

This animation shows how mutations in an ion channel protein lead to the genetic disease cystic fibrosis. The animation also discusses how research on this protein has been used to develop treatments for the disease.

This short video explores how the symbiotic relationship between certain plants and fungi allows these organisms to survive in very hot temperatures.

This interactive module explores niche partitioning, a mechanism that enables similar species of animals to coexist.

This short video explores the secrets behind termites’ power to digest an abundant source of food: wood.