PRINCIPLE OF ECOLOGY

Topics of Ecology

• Introduction to Ecology
• Ecology History
• Ecology and levels of Organisation
• Intraspecific competition
• Levels of Organisation: Autecology and Synecology-Part I
• Levels of Organisation: Autecology and Synecology-Part II
• Law of limiting factor

Population (Ecology)

• Unique and group attributes of population

1. Introduction of Population
2. Density
3. Natality
4. Mortality
5. Life tables
6. Fecundity tables
7. Survivorship curves
8. Age ratio
9. Sex ratio
10. Dispersal and Dispersion
11. Allee Principle of aggregation
12. Population Regulation
13. Lotka-Volterra, Gause’s Principle,Resource Partitioning and Character Displacement
14. Exponential or J-shaped growth curve
15. Sigmoid Growth curve
16. r and K -strategy
17. Lotka Volterra equation for competition and Predation

Community

• Community characteristics: 

1. Community
2. Growth forms/Life forms and Community Structure
3. Vertical stratification 
4. Species richness 
5. Diversity 
6. Dominance 
7. Abundance 
8. Ecotone, Ecocline and Edge effect 

• Ecological succession 
• Primary and Secondary Succession
• Examples of Succession: Hydrosere and Lithosere
• Theories pertaining to climax community