Skeletal Lecture Notes:

Lecture 1: Introduction (no notes)
Lecture 2: Structuring principles
Lecture 3: Predator-prey behavior
Lecture 4: Adapting to the physical environment
Lecture 5: Limits to plant and animal distributions
Lecture 6: The carbon cycle and global climate change
Lecture 7: How are ecological communities (biomes) distributed?
Lecture 8: Evolution, natural selection, and adaptation

Lecture 9: Life histories and the evolution of fitness
Lecture 10: Sex, behavior, and evolution
Lecture 11: Social behavior
(note that starting with Lecture 12, the sequence in the syllabus has changed slightly because of the snow day; Dispersal and Migration will be discussed later)
Lecture 12: Population size and growth
Lecture 13: Population demography
Lecture 14: Human population growth
Lecture 15: Population regulation and dynamics
Lecture 16: Maximum sustainable yield in fisheries
Lecture 17: Extinction and conservation
Lecture 18: Spatial ecology and conservation biology

Lecture 19: Genetics of small populations
Lecture 20: Dispersal behavior and migration
Lecture 21: Biological control of pests (predation)
Lecture 22: Predator-prey interactions, concepts
Lecture 23: The ecology, evolution, and behavior of disease
Lecture 24: Competition
Lecture 25: Competition, concepts
Lecture 26: Mutualism and coevolution
Lecture 27: Speciation
Lecture 28: Human biological and cultural evolution
Lecture 29: Food webs and community structure
Lecture 30: Patterns of biodiversity

Lecture 31: Habitat loss and biodiversity
Lecture 32: Succession and disturbance
Lecture 33: Invasion by non-native species
Lecture 34: Ecosystems – production, decomposition
Lecture 35: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Lecture 36: The nitrogen cycle and impacts of pollution
Lecture 37: Landscape ecology
Lecture 38: Environmental factors and the spread of human civilization
Lecture 39: Restoration ecology, and primate conservation (no notes)