Biology 3601A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Allelopathy, Generation Time, Population Connection
1 Feb 2015
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Define: ecology, population, density, experiments, clumped, carrying capacity, demographic transition, etc. Key characteristics that affect a population & factors influencing these. Exponential and/or logistic growth model, equation, graph and or description estimate population size. Define carrying capacity and interpret population dynamics on proximity to k. Distinguish between and identify examples of density (dependent and independent models) Explain and interpret human population growth rate with reference to social, medical and economic factors demographic transition model. Textbook readings: 44. 1, 44. 2, 44. 5, 44. 6 (intro and a), 44. 7 (intro and c: 1. Basic ecology: distribution and abundance and how they interact with each other and the physical environment. Applied ecology: use the above data as a baseline to develop conservation plans to help mitigate ecological damage caused by human activities. Ecological research is dominated by hypothetico-deductive approaches; however, initial approaches allow biologists to generate appropriate hypotheses about how systems function. Ecology can be divided into four increasingly complex levels of organization.
