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Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house"; -λογία, "study of") is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their biophysical environment. Founded 2008 · 124.8K members

123.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 7.3K upvotes, which works out to 59 per 1,000 members.

59peak upvotes per 1,000 members
123.8Kmembers
7.3Kbest post
279most comments
198posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Link 30% Question 22% Image 22% Text 15% Gallery 7% Video 5%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

U.S. moves to add monarch butterfly to the endangered species list

↑ 7.3K 💬 109 link 2024

Iowa allows fur trappers to kill gray foxes even though only 10 are known to still exist in the state.

↑ 3.7K 💬 153 text 2024

‘Murder Hornet’ Has Been Eradicated From the U.S., Officials Say

↑ 2.6K 💬 41 link 2024

Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon

↑ 2.2K 💬 36 link 2026

Sea otters, who nearly went extinct at the hands of fur trappers, have recovered and are eliminating an invasive pest.

↑ 1.9K 💬 7 link 2024

'Tis the season for roasting chestnuts. But in the US, native ones are almost gone

↑ 1.8K 💬 46 link 2024

Is there a specific name for this ecosystem?

↑ 1.6K 💬 93 gallery 2025

‘The dead zone is real’: why US farmers are embracing wildflowers

↑ 1.5K 💬 21 link 2024

Every time a hard rain rinses the road into one Seattle creek, about 80 percent of the young coho salmon below go belly up within a day

↑ 1.3K 💬 57 link 2026

I feel there is a really big lack of awareness for what ecosystems store carbon well

↑ 1.2K 💬 74 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/ecology, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/ecology?
r/ecology describes itself this way: Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house"; -λογία, "study of") is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their biophysical environment. It was founded in 2008 and has 124.8K members.
How many members does r/ecology have?
r/ecology has about 123.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 198 of its posts; the biggest reached 7.3K upvotes, which is 59 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ecology?
"U.S. moves to add monarch butterfly to the endangered species list" reached 7.3K upvotes and 109 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ecology.
What subreddits are similar to r/ecology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/ecology?
Of the posts we hold, 30% are link posts and 22% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ecology?
Across 198 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes), Thursday at 00:00 UTC (1.4K avg upvotes), Monday at 07:00 UTC (726 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/ecology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ecology has 924 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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