Which of the following areas of study focuses on the exchange of energy, organisms, and materials between ecosystems? a. organismal ecology b. landscape ecology c. ecosystem ecology d. community ecology

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Hi everyone here's our next problem. It says it is the study of the abundance and distribution of organisms in a population over time. So abundance, meaning how many distribution, how they're distributed. And let's look at our choices here. Choice A says ecosystem ecology. We're talking about ecosystem, we're talking about the different living and non living things making up an entire ecosystem. So here we're talking about abundance and distribution of organisms. So ecosystem ecology is not the correct answer to describe that. So we can eliminate a choice. B. Says community ecology on community. We're looking at usually looking at how different groups, different species interact with each other. So community is a little more promising as it's talking about organisms, but not quite right since we're talking about how many and how they're distributed of an organism versus interactions between them. So we can go ahead and eliminate Choice B. Choice C. Says landscape ecology. Well, we're obviously not talking about the landscape here, we're not talking about the physical surroundings. So go ahead and get rid of choice See so we've just got one left choice. The population ecology and yes, population ecology is that study of the abundance and distribution of organisms in a population over time. Talking about how they're affected by factors like birth and death rate. So Choice B. Population ecology is our answer to this problem. See you next time