Ecology and evolutionary biology
This field of study includes topics such as the way organisms respond and evolve, as well as the relationships among animals, plants, and micro-organisms, when their habitats change.
[1] Ecology and evolutionary biology is a broad field of study that covers various ranges of ages and scales, which can also help us to comprehend human impacts on the global ecosystem and find measures to achieve more sustainable development.
Birds learn to sing in specific patterns because birdsong conveys information to select partners, which is a result of evolution.
It was found that darker shells absorb more heat, which can be a risk for overheating of the snail in certain habitats like dunes.
Higher rates of phenotypic change have been observed in urban areas compared to natural and nonurban anthropogenic systems.
In tropical regions a certain species of lizards, Anolis cristatellus, lives in both urban and natural areas.
In cities, birds started to sing at higher frequencies than they do in natural areas, in order to still be heard by their conspecifics.
Due to this, the chances of the seeds landing on asphalt or stone and not being able to sprout are way higher than in open fields.
[10] This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective since heavy seeds fall very close to the mother-plant, probably in the same green patch, and therefore have a higher chance of sprouting.
So if an insect flies with a fixed angle compared to a street light for instance, he starts flying in circles and eventually ends up circling the street light, which reduces his chances of finding food and a mating partner.
The wording is intended as representing the alternative approach from the frequently used pairing of Cell and Molecular Biology, while being more inclusive than the terminology of Botany or Zoology.
The origins and history of ecosystems, species, genes and genomes, and organisms, and how these have changed over time is all part of the studies of how biodiversity has evolved and how it takes place.
