Introduction : defining nature -- What is a species? -- The history of life -- How many species are there? -- Measuring diversity -- Niches -- Patterns in species richness -- Drivers of diversity -- Does diversity matter? -- Organisation at the community scale -- Stability -- Ch…
Introduction : defining nature -- What is a species? -- The history of life -- How many species are there? -- Measuring diversity -- Niches -- Patterns in species richness -- Drivers of diversity -- Does diversity matter? -- Organisation at the community scale -- Stability -- Ch…
Ecology is the study of how the living world works. Over recent years, its scope has broadened to include topics from small-scale interactions among individual organisms to global patterns, much of which fall outside the traditional ecology syllabus. Natural Systems: The Organis…