Final Review: look up these topics in your notes primarily, but supplemented in your textbook and in the web links provided (topics in red won't be on our final exam)

Chapter and page numbers indicated (Molles). Keep checking back here between now and the final, as I continue to update helpful links to read.

·      Population Biology Resources

·       Populus

·       Ecological Interactions (-,-), (+,-) (+,+)

·       Competition

o      Gause's Experiments

o      Lotka-Volterra Models

o      Passive Resource Partitioning (niche differentiation)

o      Character Divergence/Displacement (pp 301-304)

·       Niche Theory (pp 297-301)

o      Effects of + or - interactions on niche breadth & overlap

o      Patterns of niche overlap between niche dimensions (e.g. Schoener's anolis lizards)

o      Niche overlap versus species number (e.g. Pianka's desert lizard communities)

·       Indirect Effects (pp 382-385)

·       Predator/Prey (Chapter 14)

o      Lotka-Volterra Model (pp 323-325)

o      Experiments: Gause, Huffaker (pp 325-328)

o      Keystone predation (pp 383-394)

o      Trophic cascades (Power's food chains, e.g. pp 389-390)

·       Succession (Chapter 20)

o      Primary (p 442-443)

o      Secondary (p 444-445)

o      Disturbance, especially intermediate disturbance hypothesis (pp 370-371)

o      Species sorting: life-history tradeoffs  (see also r vs K selection in Ch 12, pp. 275-276)