| Introduction |
| 1 |
How many Species are there on Earth? |
| Food Webs |
| 2 |
Introduction to Food Webs and Trophic Interactions |
| 3 |
Empirical Examples and Critiques of the Cascade Model |
| 4 |
Dynamical Models of Food Webs |
| Biodiversity and Ecological Stability |
| 5 |
What is the Relationship Between Complexity and Stability? |
| 6 |
Evidence from Experiments |
| 7 |
Diversity Stability Relationships: Statistical Inevitability or Ecological Consequence? |
| Diversity and Ecosystem Function |
| 8 |
Diversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| 9 |
Perspectives on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function |
| Species-area Relationships |
| 10 |
Island Biogeography |
| 11 |
Theoretical Foundation: Log-normal Distributions of Species Abundance Power-law Species-area Curves |
| 12 |
Spatial Models |
| Species-energy Relationships |
| 13 |
What is the Role of Resource Availability in Species-area Relationships? |
| 14 |
Empirical Tests of Species-energy Theory |
| 15 |
Issues of Scale |
| Extinctions and Home Range |
| 16 |
Extinction Rates and Range Contraction of Endangered Species |
| The Role of Body Size in Ecology |
| 17 |
Introduction to Body Size in the Context of Evolution and Ecology |
| 18 |
Allometric Constraints, Resource Equipartitioning and Body Size |
| 19 |
Cope's Rule |
| 20 |
Home Range Scaling and Statistical Artifacts in Abundance Sampling |
| 21 |
Evolutionary Entropy and Body Size |
| Student Presentations |
| 22-29 |
Student Presentations |
