BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Logistic Function, Pleiotropy, Gamma Diversity
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Why do we age? ( senesce : antagonistic pleiotropy theory of g. c. Ecology and evolution of species interactions: two main foci of study, population dynamics and effects on community structure, evolutionary dynamics (adaptation, co-evolution) Exploitative competition: two species do not need to directly interact or even to be active at the same time to compete, if one consumes a resource, leaving less resource for the other, then they compete. Understanding competition coef cients ( "s: fixed for a particular pair of species (in theory, anyways, 12n2 converts individuals of species 2 into an equivalent number of individuals of species 1, ex. A squirrel can eat a lot more seeds than a sparrow; measures how many sparrows-worth of seeds a single squirrel eats. My favourite description of how niche overlap leads to competition. And nuh is the letter i use to spell nutches who live in small caves, known as.
