This document outlines topics in ecology and biodiversity, including life cycles, competition within and between species, trophic interactions in ecosystems, co-evolution, factors influencing diversity patterns like productivity, heterogeneity, climate and disturbance, and methods for measuring diversity including species richness, rank-abundance diagrams, and diversity indices.
This document outlines topics in ecology and biodiversity, including life cycles, competition within and between species, trophic interactions in ecosystems, co-evolution, factors influencing diversity patterns like productivity, heterogeneity, climate and disturbance, and methods for measuring diversity including species richness, rank-abundance diagrams, and diversity indices.
This document outlines topics in ecology and biodiversity, including life cycles, competition within and between species, trophic interactions in ecosystems, co-evolution, factors influencing diversity patterns like productivity, heterogeneity, climate and disturbance, and methods for measuring diversity including species richness, rank-abundance diagrams, and diversity indices.
Life cycles & Life tables Dispersal and migration Intraspecific competition Interspecific competition Mutualism Trophic interactions Flux of energy & matter through ecosystems Evolutionary ecology Molecular markers in ecology Co-evolutionary arms race (host-parasite interactions) Mutualistic interactions Diversity patterns & theory Spatially varying factors Productivity & resource richness Spatial heterogeneity Environmental harshness Temporally varying factors o Climatic variation o Disturbance o Environmental age Diversity measurements & indices Species richness & equations Rank=abundance diagrams Diversity indices