[EEB321H1] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (102 pages long!)
29 Mar 2017
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Strong conceptual influence from population ecology: community ecology strongly influenced by population ecology, helps understand what happens in communities. In 30s and 50s was debate between biotic and climate schools of thought in population. Biotic: everything influenced by biological interactions (mostly competition, competition drives population dynamics (population explodes, or population declines, equilibrium view of world, drives diversity. Abiotic: climatic factors driving population dynamics, biotic school won and strongly influenced field of community ecology, driven by idea that competition and equilibrium were really important. More niches support more diversity: foliage height diversity related to how many bird species we have, the more differences in height, the more species you can have. In australia, some other group repeated same experiment and got same result: positive relationship with number of environments in tree and number of species, more diverse in environments (distance from trunk), the more species.
