PPT-Ecology 8310

Population and Community Ecology Predatorprey Response to Thursday Empirical patterns Luckinbills experiments Huffakers mites Lake patterns in phytozoop as fnutrients Causes of positive increases in consumerresource. (LSU BIOL 4253, Section 3, Fall 2015). Composite satellite image (“Blue Marble 2012”) from Wikimedia Commons. A312 Life . Sciences . Annex. kharms@lsu.edu. Dr. Kyle E. Harms. http://. www.kharms.biology.lsu.edu. Population (and Community) Ecology. Competition: the R* approach. Consumer and resource dynamics. A graphical approach. ZNGIs. Consumption vectors. Resource renewal. Putting it together. Tests. The basics:. Vegetation and Terrestrial Wildlife. Vegetation. Plant Communities. Disturbance. Unique Communities. Wildlife. Amphibians and Reptiles. Birds. Mammals. Terrestrial Ecology: Vegetation. Goals of vegetation sampling on ODOT projects. Population (and Community) Ecology. The effects of diversity. Background. Tilman. and Downing 1994. Species vs. functional diversity. Foodwebs. (instead of primary producers only). Form of BES relationship. Population (and Community) Ecology. Metapopulations. Levins. ' model. Mainland-island model. Within-patch dynamics. Source – sink . dynamics. Closed population. Births, . deaths. N (focal population). Viengkham. District, . Luang. . Prabang. Province, . RDP Laos.. National multi stakeholder workshop “towards an agroecology transition”. 2. nd. to 3. rd. of June 2016.  . 1. Limiting pressure on environment, . Beyond two trophic levels. HSS 1960. Oksanen. et al. 1981. Control, Limitation, Regulation. Bottom-up vs. Top-down. Trophic cascades. Beyond two trophic levels…. Why is the world green?. Observation: Plants are abundant; thus…. Patch selection (e.g., Marginal Value Theorem). Prey selection (optimal diet theory). Moving beyond feeding (energy intake): predation risk. . (u/g). Patch selection. :. Consider a forager moving among many patches during a foraging bout (rodent among seed caches, pollinator among flowers, etc.). Water on Earth. Uneven Global Distribution of Fresh Water. Definitions by Wetzel (2001). see page 4. Limnology. Freshwater Ecology. Freshwater Biology. Theories of Ecology. Taken from . Dodds. (2009). Drew . Purves. and the CEES group Microsoft Research Cambridge. Demos here. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/collegetour/Default.aspx. Why science at Microsoft Research?. Science . is a key . WORKSHEET. Go over Sections F, G, and H. AFTER THE QUIZ. Work on Section I. DO NOW. Get out EOC Daily sheet, worksheet, and notes. BIOLOGY EOC BIO47. The diagram below shows a plant’s response to stimuli.. Seguing into from populations to communities. Species interactions. Lotka-Volterra. equations. Competition. Adding in resources. Species interactions:. Competition (- , -). Predation (+ , -). (. Herbivory. II. The Tenets of Deep Ecology While I am aware that the term deep ecology was coined by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, this article refers specifically to the American variant.2 Adherents of Geography. Resources. Phylogeny. Community. Redrawn from Fauth . et al. . (1996). Community. – collection of species that occur at the same place & time, circumscribed by natural (. e.g. ., serpentine soil), arbitrary, or artificial (.