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