| Learning outcomes | Biodiversity | Reading | ||||||
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Introduction | |
Diversity hypotheses | |
General principles | |||
| What is biodiversity | Historical explanantions | Stress, biological interactions | Stability and intermediate disturbance hypothesis | |||||
| Studying biodiversity | |
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Geometric constraints | ||||
| Richness, endemism & abundance | |
Energy and productivity | ||||||
| Beta diversity and the importance of scale | |
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Explanantions for the latitudinal gradient of species richness | |
Mechanisms and processes | |||||
| Latitudinal gradient | ||||||||
| Altitude, depth & peninsula effects | |
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| Currie at al 2004 | ||||||||
| Scale framework | Field et al 2005 | Lavers and Field 2006 | ||||||
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| Hawkins et al 2003 | Field et al submitted | |||||||