Population and Community Ecology
Discover the intricacies of population and community ecology, including topics like population dynamics, environmental limits to growth, and the characteristics of communities.
Population Demography
Population Size and Density
Species Distribution
Demography
Summarizing Population Demography
Life History Patterns and Energy Budgets
Summarizing Life Histories and Natural Selection
Exponential Growth
Logistic Growth
Summarizing Environmental Limits to Population Growth
Population Dynamics and Regulation
Density-Dependent Regulation
Density-Independent Regulation
Life Histories of <em>k</em>-selected and <em>r</em>-selected Species
Modern Theories of Life History
Summarizing Population Dynamics and Regulation
Human Population Growth
Overcoming Density-Dependent Regulation
Age Structure, Population Growth, and Economic Development
Long-Term Consequences of Exponential Human Population Growth
Summarizing Human Population Growth
Predation and Herbivory
Competitive Exclusion Principle
Symbiosis and Symbiotic Relationships
Characteristics of Communities
Community Dynamics
Summarizing Community Ecology
Introducing Behavioral Biology
Innate Behaviors: Movement and Migration
Innate Behaviors: Living in Groups
Simple Learned Behaviors
Conditioned Behavior
Cognitive Learning
Sociobiology
Summarizing Behavioral Biology