Organisms: Introduction

Digest

Approach

• Constructive approach: Building up from organisms to populations to communities.
• Analytically approach: Deconstructing from communities into populations and furthermore into organisms.
• This book follows a constrictive rather than analytically approach in this regard.

Constructive approach

Chatpers

1. Chapter 1: Constraints of evolutionary history of organisms
2. Chapter 2: Variation of environmental conditions with respect to place and time and their effect (limit) on the distribution of particular species.
3. Chapter 3: Resources consumed by different types of organisms.
4. Chapter 4: Variety in the schedules of birth and death (life histories)
5. Chapter 5: Intraspecific competition for shared resources in short supply (interaction within single species populations)
6. Chapter 6: Immigration and emigration
7. Chapter 7: Applications: restoration, biosecurity, species conservation

Questions

1. What role does the abundance of a specific species play in shaping a community?
2. What will the chapters in Part I (Organisms) be covering?