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Unit: Ecology

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Responses to the environment

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Intro to animal behavior
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Innate behaviors
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Learned behaviors
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Animal communication
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Animal communication
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Animal behavior: foraging
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Energy flow through ecosystems

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Metabolic rate
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Endotherms & ectotherms
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Temperature regulation strategies
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Life history strategies and fecundity
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Life history strategies
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Flow of energy and matter through ecosystems
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Food chains & food webs
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Impact of changes to trophic pyramids
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Population ecology

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Exponential and logistic growth in populations
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Exponential & logistic growth
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Population regulation
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Population regulation
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Population growth rate based on birth and death rates
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Per capita population growth and exponential growth
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Logistic growth versus exponential growth
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Population ecology review
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Practice
Population ecology
4 questions

Community ecology

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Interactions between populations
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Interactions in communities
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Niches & competition
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Predator-prey cycles
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Tropical rainforest diversity
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Community structure
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Simpson's index of diversity
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Biodiversity

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Ecosystems and ecological networks
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Community structure
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Tropical rainforest diversity
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Disruptions to ecosystems

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Mutation as a source of variation
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Introduced species and biodiversity
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Invasive species
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Human activities that threaten biodiversity
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How does climate change affect biodiversity?
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How did all dinosaurs except birds go extinct?
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Were dinosaurs undergoing long-term decline before mass extinction?
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Human impact on ecosystems review
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