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