Biodiversity

Biodiversity

Ecosystem Functioning
1. Community organisation
  1. Plant succession
  2. Stability
2. Oceanography
3. Metapopulations
4. Competition
  1. Modelling
  2. Niche theory
5. Island Biogeography
6. Evolution
  1. Variation
    1. Genetic Drift
  2. Macroevolution
  3. Fitness
  4. Natural Selection
  5. Adaptation
  6. Human evolution
  7. Units
  8. Speciation
7. Spatial Dynamics
8. Trophic Interactions
  1. Multitrophic interactions
  2. Plants and microorganisms
  3. Food webs
Case Studies
1. Marine
  1. Coral Reefs
    1. Alternative Stable States
  2. Deep Ocean
  3. Marine Mammals
2. Hotspots
  1. BIodiversity
    1. Subtropics
    2. Tropics
  2. Extinction
3. Europe
  1. UK
    1. Red Kite
    2. Butterflies
4. Savannas
5. Tundra
6. North America
7. Insects
Threats
1. Global Climate Change
  1. Disease
    1. Change in occurence
    2. Modelling
  2. Community level
  3. Species Level
  4. Plants
    1. Direct
    2. Indirect
2. Habitat Loss
  1. Fragmentation
    1. Small populations
3. Humans
  1. Food availability
  2. Making things worse!
4. Marine Pollution
5. Invasive Species
Solutions
1. Green Roofs
2. Biofuels
3. Plants?
4. Ecotourism
5. Genetic Tools
  1. Phylogenetics
  2. Molecular clocl
  3. Fossil record
6. Monitoring
  1. Rarity
  2. Species Richness
  3. Life History traits
    1. Body size
    2. Phenological events
  4. Statistics
7. Agricultural Practices
  1. Crop domestication
  2. Crop Quality
    1. Improving photosynthesis
    2. Improving nutritional value
  3. Harvesting
  4. Molecular tools
8. Reintroductions
  1. Captive Breeding
9. Habitat corridors

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