Ecology

Part 1 Organisms: the match between organisms and their environments; conditions; resources; life and death in unitary and modular organisms; migration and dispersal in space and time. Part 2 Interactions: intraspecific competition; interspecific competition; the nature of predation; the behaviour of predators; the population dynamics of predation; decomposers and detritivores; parasitism and disease; mutualism. Part 3 Two overviews: life history variation; abundance. Part 4 Communities: the nature of the community; the flux of energy and matter through communities; the influence of competition on community structure; the influence of predation and disturbance on community structure; islands, areas and colonization; community stability and community structure; patterns of species diversity.