BIOL227 FULL LECTURE NOTES (DISTINCTION)

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All lectures, detailed content with pictures. Super helpful to get through the unit as there is a tonne of content! :) Topics: - What is ecology? Ecologists, models, spheres - Conditions, resources and niche concept - Distribution - factors limiting, experimentation - Field Sampling - comparisons, stats - Productivity - global patterns, factors limiting - Effects of environment on life history - Community: diversity and species richness - scales - Biodiversity - extinction - Population Growth + Intraspecific Competition - carrying capacity, logistic+exponential growth - Interspecific Competition - effects, models - Predation - importance - Facilitation - commensalism, mutualism - Parasitism - lifecycles, parasite types, effects - Stanwell Tops Environmen - Community Structure: Disturbance and Succession, Island Biogeography - Food Webs - energy, efficiencies, residence, sources, nitrogen/phosphorous/carbon/hydro - Spatial subsidies - Ecological Impact Assessment - Restoration Ecology - Invasive species - Managed Ecosystems - Biological Responses to Climate Change