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Population
Per capita growth rate,
Intrinsic growth rate,
Maximum intrinsic growth rate
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Lecture 8 Predation, Parasitism and Disease
What are the cycles in predator a...,
What is antagonistic co evolution,
What is the red queen hypothesis
10
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Lecture 7: Community ecology, Mostly competition
Interspecific competition,
Intraspecific competition,
Interference competition
11
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Lecture 6: Population ecology: age-structured populations and life histories
Life history,
Age structured populations,
Survivorship curves
13
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Lecture 5: Population ecology: the fundamentals of population growth
What are population dynamics,
Why is studying population dynami...,
Geometric growth
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Lecture 4: Physiological ecology: plants
What do plants need in order to s...,
What is the carbon balance in pho...,
What is transpiration
12
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Lecture 3: Physiological ecology: animals
Temperature tolerance,
Latitude,
Why have mechanism of homeostasis...
28
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Lecture 2: Climate and other niche axes
The hutchinson niche,
The niche,
Why temperature and seasonality v...
22
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Lecture 1: Course introduction; What ecology is and why it matters
Definition of ecology,
Is biodiversity equally distributed,
Population
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Lecture 9: Mutualism & symbiosis
What does symbiosis mean,
What is mutualism,
What is not mutualism
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Lecture 11: Community ecology: trophic relationships and plant-animal interactions
Tropic levels in order,
Primary consumers,
Primary consumers
31
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Lecture 10 Dispersal, metapopulations, and island biogeography
Are real populations close systems,
Disperse,
Dispersal allows organisms to
29
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Lecture 18 sex, reproductive systems and evolution
What are the two reproductive sys...,
What are the two sexual systems a...,
What are the two mating systems a...
80
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Lecture 19 Natural Selection and Adaptation
What are the two types of selection,
What is fitness,
What is fitness otherwise known as
51
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Lecture 20 population structure, gene flow and genetic drift
What is migration,
What is a population,
What gene flow
36
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Lecture 21 Species, speciation and hybridization
Sympatric,
Allopatric,
Intrinsic
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Lecture 22 Phylogenetics and Macroevolution
Monophyletic group,
Paraphyletic group,
Homology
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Lecture 23 Evolution of Complexity
What do all organisms have the in...,
How can complex traits evolve by ...,
What does greater complexity aris...
29
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Lecture 24 Applied Evolution
What is meant by de novo mutation,
What is meant by evolution by pre...,
How is gene flow related to evolu...
12
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