Community Ecology

How species assemble into communities and what controls their diversity.

ECOL-320 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · Ecology

Course content

  1. 1What is a communityComing
  2. 2Measuring diversityComing
  3. 3NichesComing
  4. 4Competition in communitiesComing
  5. 5Predation and herbivoryComing
  6. 6MutualismComing
  7. 7Food websComing
  8. 8Disturbance and successionComing
  9. 9Species-area relationshipsComing
  10. 10Island biogeographyComing
  11. 11Invasive speciesComing
  12. 12Analysing community dataComing

Requirements

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.

Description

How species assemble into communities and what controls their diversity.

Part of the Science stream, typically taken in year 3.