Episode Details

- Introduction: The concept of community (marine and otherwise)
- The influence of physical and biological factors
- Competition, growth rate and carrying capacity, types of distribution, change
- Examples of marine communities (rocky intertidal, seaweed, sand beach and cobble beach, salt marshes and estuaries, coral reefs, the open ocean, the deep-sea floor, hydrothermal vent)
- Symbiotic interactions and dependencies