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Lec #Topics
Introduction
1How many Species are there on Earth?
Food Webs
2Introduction to Food Webs and Trophic Interactions
3Empirical Examples and Critiques of the Cascade Model
4Dynamical Models of Food Webs
Biodiversity and Ecological Stability
5What is the Relationship Between Complexity and Stability?
6Evidence from Experiments
7Diversity Stability Relationships: Statistical Inevitability or Ecological Consequence?
Diversity and Ecosystem Function
8Diversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems
9Perspectives on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
Species-area Relationships
10Island Biogeography
11Theoretical Foundation: Log-normal Distributions of Species Abundance Power-law Species-area Curves
12Spatial Models
Species-energy Relationships
13What is the Role of Resource Availability in Species-area Relationships?
14Empirical Tests of Species-energy Theory
15Issues of Scale
Extinctions and Home Range
16Extinction Rates and Range Contraction of Endangered Species
The Role of Body Size in Ecology
17Introduction to Body Size in the Context of Evolution and Ecology
18Allometric Constraints, Resource Equipartitioning and Body Size
19Cope's Rule
20Home Range Scaling and Statistical Artifacts in Abundance Sampling
21Evolutionary Entropy and Body Size
Student Presentations
22-29Student Presentations

 








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