Class Notes for Herbert Kronzucker

Competition between cells, organisms, populations, and species can either be: (a) direct (also known as contest or interference competition) or (b) ind

Predation can be seen as an extreme form of competition, and the distinction between competition and predation is often blurry. Predation drives the fl

Despite what politicians and economists would like you to believe, unbridled growth is not possible all growth in nature has its limits! Both irruptive

The earth"s tilted axis (23. 50) causes unequal distribution of incoming solar radiation across the planet"s surface, and with it creates the seasons.

The ecological footprint analysis reveals that at least three planets earth would required to sustain the present human population at the resource cons

In order to describe the competitive interactions between populations of two species, we need to modify the logistic equations for those populations by

Unlike competition or predation, mutualism is a species-species interaction where both species benefit from the interaction. The megadiversity areas ar

Trophic transfer efficiency (tte) = ce x ae x pe (often ~10%) The importance of the detrital food chain, as illustrated by australia"s dung problem: Th