Community Ecology Topics
Definition & history of community ecology
Exponential & logistic growth (single species)
EvoEcoEvo dynamics
Competition models - Lotka-Volterra and Consumer-Resource
Competition - classic experiments and meta-analyses
Competition - checkerboard patterns, null models
Niches - general theory
Niche overlap, limiting similarity, character displacement
Predation - Lotka-Volterra & Rosenzweig MacArthur models, functional responses
Predation - classic experiments and meta-analyses
Predation - induced defenses, Red Queen, behavioral changes
Optimal foraging
Mutualism & facillitation - dynamic models
Mutualism & facilitation - experiments, natural history
Food webs - structuring principles (e.g body size, dynamic limits to length)
Interaction strength and indirect effects
Trophic cascades
Complexity & stability
Network theory
Patchy environments - island biogeography & conservation
Patchy environments - metapopulations & metacommunities
Patchy environments - landscape ecology
Dispersal ecology
Succession
Coexistence theory
Temporally fluctuating environments
Neutral theory & MaxEnt
Basics of evolution (e.g. Darwin's 4 postulates)
Coevolution & evolutionary community ecology
Community metrics (richness, evenness, diversity)
Species abundance distributions
Species area relationship
Controls of species diversity (latitudinal gradient, climate, etc)
Other macroecology (e.g. occupancy-abundance, Bergman & Rappaport's rules)
Ecosystem services
Biodiversity & ecosystem function
Functional traits and community assembly
Climate/species interactions (e.g. temperature response curves)
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