© Jim Barritt 2005School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University, Wellington MSc Student Supervisors : Dr Stephen Hartley, Dr Marcus Frean Victoria.
Community Ecology The study of how abundance, diversity, and distributions of species vary due to interactions with other organisms and variation in abiotic.
The Role of Plant Dispersal on Ecosystem Function
Spatial Graphs for Assessing Woodland Caribou Habitat Connectivity Dan O’Brien, MSc, RPBio (Cortex Consultants Inc.) Micheline Manseau, PhD (Parks Canada)
Theoretical community models: Incorporating dispersal.
Island Biogeography. Why study Islands? First biologists and geographers studied them like Wallace (East Indies), Darwin (Galapagos Islands) and Hooker.
Disturbance Biology/Env S 204 Spring 2009. Disturbance Definition: any process or condition external to the natural physiology of living organisms that.
We must be able to understand the population dynamics of parasites in order to improve control strategies, but studying this has ethical complications.
Loses of biodiversity. Natural Extinctions Surprisingly, we know very little about natural extinctions In the past, known only from fossil records Physical.
1 Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in the Control of Biological Invasions Charles Perrings University of York 4 th BIOECON Workshop Venice August 2003.
Seeds on the Run: A Model of Seed Dispersal Sara Garnett, Michael Kuczynski, Anne Royer GK-12 workshop 12/5/12.
Climate Change Adaptation