Slide 1© Jim Barritt 2005School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University, Wellington MSc Student Supervisors : Dr Stephen Hartley, Dr Marcus Frean Victoria University,…

Slide 1Community Ecology The study of how abundance, diversity, and distributions of species vary due to interactions with other organisms and variation in abiotic conditions…

The role of plant dispersal on ecosystem function The role of plant dispersal on ecosystem function Luka Negoita, PhD candidate SU Biology Background The physical environment…

Slide 1 Spatial Graphs for Assessing Woodland Caribou Habitat Connectivity Dan O’Brien, MSc, RPBio (Cortex Consultants Inc.) Micheline Manseau, PhD (Parks Canada) Andrew…

Slide 1 Theoretical community models: Incorporating dispersal Slide 2 Community consequences of dispersal Dispersal brings new species Dispersal allows persistence in unsuitable…

Slide 1Island Biogeography Slide 2 Why study Islands? First biologists and geographers studied them like Wallace (East Indies), Darwin (Galapagos Islands) and Hooker (Southern…

Slide 1Disturbance Biology/Env S 204 Spring 2009 Slide 2 Disturbance Definition: any process or condition external to the natural physiology of living organisms that results…

Slide 1 Slide 2 We must be able to understand the population dynamics of parasites in order to improve control strategies, but studying this has ethical complications in…

Slide 1 Loses of biodiversity Slide 2 Natural Extinctions Surprisingly, we know very little about natural extinctions In the past, known only from fossil records Physical…

Slide 1 1 Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in the Control of Biological Invasions Charles Perrings University of York 4 th BIOECON Workshop Venice August 2003 Slide 2…