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Elena Weber

Elena Weber is an in-house science writer at Biology Insights who covers ecology and environmental science. A former classroom teacher with 17 years of experience in middle schools and charter high schools, she taught courses in general science and advanced environmental topics in Helena, Montana. She continues to teach occasional ecology workshops for local secondary students.

How the Mark and Recapture Method Estimates Population Size
What Are r-Selected Species vs. K-Selected Species?
What Are Examples of Intraspecific Competition?
What Is Swarming? From Animal Groups to Microbes
What Is the Relationship of the Lynx and Rabbit Population Over Time?
How Big Is a Colony? Measuring the Scale of Social Life
Which Is an Example of Foraging as a Benefit of Social Behavior?
How Predator Fear Causes Community-Wide Stress
How Does Cooperation in Nature Work?
What Is Dispersal Ability and Why Is It Important?
What Makes Humans a K-Selected Species?
What Is Cooperative Breeding and Why Do Animals Cooperate?
How to Calculate Net Reproductive Rate
How Does Living in a Group Like Lions Increase Fitness?
What Is a K-Selected Species? Traits & Examples
What Is a Life Table and How Is It Used?
Cryptic Species: What They Are and Why They Matter
What Is a Levy Walk and Why Is It an Efficient Strategy?
Spatial Niche Partitioning: How Species Avoid Competition
Wolf and Deer: A Predator-Prey Relationship
Why Do Animals Live in Groups? Insights into Social Survival