EEB302 is a lecture course.

We intend the laboratory and the reading to enrich the lectures and help you to understand them.

Your lecture exam grade will comprise 80% of your final grade (unless you fail the lab).
 

General Outline
(click on specific topics for details and reading assignments)

NEW Dr Pavao-Zuckerman's Lecture and Readings Schedule

  1. Life and the Physical Environment
    1. Variation in the physical environment
    2. Adaptation to varying environments
    3. Life histories and evolutionary fitness
    4. Biome concept
    5. Energy flow
  2. Single-species Ecology
    1. Exponential growth in a closed population
    2. Limits to growth
    3. Intraspecific interactions
    4. Structured populations
  1. Two-species Interactions
    1. Competition
    2. Patterns & mechanisms of competitive coexistence
    3. Exploitation (predation)
    4. Mutualism
    5. Mimicry
  2. Species Diversity
    1. Patterns
    2. Habitat diversity helps explain five patterns.
    3. Extinction
    4. Island biogeography
    5. Provincial diversity
    6. Scale dependence
    7. Why latitudinal gradients? The signals of area & energy flow
    8. Conservation of diversity
 

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