BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Conservation Biology, Phenotypic Plasticity, Population Ecology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO120H1
• Professor: Spencer Barrett

Document Summary

Works on ants (classifications and studies of behaviour) Logged tropical forest in amazonia beef for burgers. Not a lot of genetic information know about this plant. Biodiversity, extinction & conservation biology: ecological & evolutionary consequences of global environmental change, what is biodiversity and why does it matter, the causes of extinction today, conservation biology ecological & genetic perspectives on a crisis-driven science. Three kinds of responses to climate change (2 of them are evolutionary ideas and one is ecological. Migrate to more favourable environmental conditions (=ecology) Adapt to changing environmental conditions (=evolution) (phenotypic plasticity, adaptation, etc. ) Just an idea for what evolutionary responses are. These are all long term studies where people have census in populations over years. Looking at various aspects of population biology (when it lays eggs/flowers, where, etc. ) Lots of rain in california, lots of flowering. Dry years cause a decrease in flowering and abundance of variety.