BIO205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Species Richness, Time Series, Silwood Park
Document Summary
Ecological and evolutionary effects of herbivory and competition on plant communities at silwood park, england. Goals: ecological importance of plant competition and herbivory, field techniques, complexity of field ecology methods and results, interrelatedness of ecology and evolution. Outline: plant competition, plant herbivore interactions, grasslands of silwood park, ecological effects of competition, ecological effects of herbivory, evolutionary effects of herbivory. A fenced area to show the differences between side with rabbits: a picture showing yellow goldenrods plots where one side has insecticides and the other side is natural. Similar with other plant species: plant herbivore coevolution coevolution: reciprocal evolutionary change between one species to the another. Animals pick and select traits in plants and then plants evolution change to affect the animals and then on and on it goes: herbivory and agriculture infested corn. Grasslands of silwood park: on campus in england, acid grassland and it"s sandy, 30 species or so. Ecological effects of competition: studying plant competition.
