ANIM3361 Notes

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Contains all weeks (1-13) lecture notes and some readings. Weekly Topics include; 1. Experimental Design & Population Growth 2. Age Specific Survival & Application of Life Tables 3. Life Histories, Population Structure and Growth 4. Sustainable Harvesting & Allee Effects 5. Population Viability Analysis (PVA) & Metapopulations 6. Competition & Predator-Prey Cycles 7. Predator-Prey Cycles (Functional Response) 8. What is a Community? & Community Structure 9. Community Organisation and Processes & Equilibrium Communities 10. Community Organisation: Special Case of Islands 11. Non-Equilibrium Communities & Recruitment Limitation 12. Metacommunities & Stability, Alternate States and Ecosystem Function 13. Biodiversity & Ecosystem Functioning