Community and Ecosystem Structure and Function
Online Lectures
Community and Ecosystem Ecology Part 1 - species richness, species even-ness, community diversity, types of species, trophic cascades.
Community and Ecosytem Ecology Part 1a - illustration of Simpson and Shannon Diversity Index calculation and interpretation
Community and Ecosytem Ecology Part 2 - Community assembly rules, properties of food webs, processes controlling the flow of energy up trophic levels
Community and Ecosystem Ecology Part 3 - community diversity and stability
Community and Ecosystem Ecology Part 4 - island biogeography
PDFs, PowerPoints and Excel Example
- Describing communities (Part 1)
- Simpson and Shannon example (Part 1a)
- Community assembly and food webs (Part 2)
- Diversity and stability (Part 3)
- Island biogeography (Part 4)
Reading
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 19 (section 19.6-19.9)
