Unit · year 3
BU-305 · Ecology & Population Dynamics
Threads systems · evolution5 concepts
Quantitative and theoretical ecology of populations and communities.
Concepts in this unit
T-087
Metapopulation dynamics
Colonisation and extinction across habitat patches.
T-088
Island biogeography
Species richness from area and isolation.
T-089
Ecological succession
How communities assemble and change over time.
T-090
Keystone species
Species with outsized effects on community structure.
T-091
r- and K-selection
Contrasting life-history strategies.