In the 2012 President's Budget Request, the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is terminated. As a result, all resources, databases, tools, and applications within this web site will be removed on January 15, 2012. For more information, please refer to the NBII Program Termination page.
Biology, the study of life, is a broad science that studies many different levels of biological organization from the molecular level to the biosphere. At the organism level, it includes an animal's genetics, morphology, physiology, life cycle, behavior, and ecology. Biology is concerned with what defines a species, where it lives and why, how many there are, how it survives and reproduces, and how it came to be like it is. Ecology, a discipline of biology, focuses on studying the distribution and abundance of organisms and their interactions. Ecology is concerned with how an organism interacts with its environment, how it selects or adapts to its habitat, how it interacts with other species, and how these biotic and abiotic factors influence individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems. Following this approach, this web page presents biological and ecological information for the Painted Bunting.
Sources:
Begon, M., Townsend, C.R. and J.L. Harper. 2006. Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems (4th edition). Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.
Campbell, N.A. and J.B. Reece. 2005. Biology (7th edition). Benjamin Cummings-Pearson Education, Inc., San Francisco, USA.
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